This never gets old. maybe it’s one of the reasons for Finnish happiness rankings?

Big news… A new LA Times poll just dropped and we’re the top challenger in the race. Even though we’ve only been running for a few weeks, our movement is clearly resonating across the city. Please donate and volunteer so we can win a city that works for everyone! linktr.ee/NithyaForMayor

SoCal industrial park “empire” architecture

glad to see @ternerhousing.bsky.social bringing attention to the latest f$^&ed up federal policy ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/pathway...

nice multifamily at the end of the rainbow, though the building’s name is a little odd

Excited to ride the T6 this summer!

might get a haircut at Wilshair

perdoname madre x press tatoo

dystopia does not stop

under appreciated frank Lloyd wright building in Beverly Hills, feels kinda fun down in spite of the Givenchy touch

ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

CA's housing crisis persists despite incremental reforms. With UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab, Paavo Monkkonen outlines a comprehensive approach to achieve housing abundance and "change the cultural imagination of what CA homeownership looks like." 🔗🏠 possibilitylab.berke...

a quemar el 2025!

Feliz año de regeneración

also a major problem in California‘s statewide housing planning process… it’s funny because the idea of having plans with different levels of specificity ‘makes sense’ when the general plan is for a large urban region and zoning is for a small area within it, but most US cities do not need both

happy holidays from the urban planning holiday party

first time seeing Marina Central Park promo from @streetsforall.org this is so cool, let's do it! www.marinacentralpark.com

Has anyone tried to compare the pace / rate of implementation of bike infra plans in California?

RIP!

Early reyes for me, this book on Carlos Contreras is hitting the spot - he brought US planning ideas to Mexico in the 1920s…

👀 🏴‍☠️ ⛵️

New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...

Culver City FTW !

Y’all see any new interesting housing / urban research lately? this one looks great helena-pedrotti.github.io/assets/docs/...

I found another one!

Paris to Madrid in 6h woah como???

Parabens to the Fundacao Joao Pinheiro! panel is on now, here’s the English feed: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BL7x...

Most famous person to pass beyond the veil in Santa Monica ? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

with everything going on, don't you want to zoom to a conference in Belo Horizonte tomorrow morning at 8:45 PST to hear some housing nerds talk about vacancy and deficits? fjp.mg.gov.br/seminario-in...

It was a pleasure to begin our 2025-26 Housing Lecture Series with @elpaavo.bsky.social After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw

anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?

households in LA with more car space than house space

welcome to LA! Hanging on by some painters tape

I do agree w that Monkkonen guy, feels like he‘s got beef with American urban planning luskin.ucla.edu/sending-a-po...

Mexico City has a participatory budget. Usually, neighbors vote for pavement and street lighting with super low turnouts. This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖

Moving back to LA I sought out a walkable neighborhood. Last night two people walking on the side were killed a block from my apartment. Should I still walk here? www.latimes.com/california/s...

do you have a guesstimate of how many total units of rezoned capacity SB79 will unlock? @idothethinking.bsky.social

a benevolent developer should make sure the first SB79 project in a single family neighborhood is a pretty building… prettier than ai can generate of course

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Ice breaker specialist Mikko Suominen (!!) warns about the crucial importance of continuing intense ice breaker R&D efforts to maintain Finland’s leadership in ice breaker technology. www.is.fi/taloussanoma...

Did someone say social housing? If you're in LA, I'll be talking about my research on French social housing on Oct 29th. I'll present early results from a project with Florence Goffette-Nagot & Romain Durand on why some landlords build so much more than others... www.lewis.ucla.edu/event/learni...

best birthday message #sncf #grandvoyageur #chemindefer #garedelyon

nerdy but important urbanism/city building stuff. enjoyed this discussion w/ @shanedphillips.bsky.social and @elpaavo.bsky.social on single stair & building code reform. ecodistricts. family-sized homes. my book (Building For People) and more! thanks for having me on, guys. enjoy!

why are setbacks so deeply engrained? Wood construction (bad noise insulation) has got to be a factor.

turns out a large majority of Angelenos want more apartments - even on single-family streets www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/a-l...

the old ugly wall is still there

sitting in traffic and feeling so free

another AFFH in California paper is out! In this one, we provide evidence of serious flaws in the role of public participation in developing local AFFH programs. Comments welcome! (it’s open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Good morning!

Paris had the buildings but needed the trees, LA has the trees just needs the buildings