At what level of government does zoning belong?| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Zoning absurdity at its finest in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Car-oriented landscapes can feel very different from each other.| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Assorted thoughts from a drive through Maryland's inner D.C. suburbs| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Further thoughts on what restaurants are really for| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Race, class, and bad Italian food in central Virginia| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Unlocking the freedom to build is about reestablishing continuity with ourselves| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
But NIMBYs might instinctively grasp something very important| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Musings on food and generational differences| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
More thoughts on "concept" restaurants| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
When you have to drive, you need to be able to park| The Deleted Scenes
When thinking about a familiar thing differently completely changes it| The Deleted Scenes
Some more thoughts on wine tourism| The Deleted Scenes
When is "work harder" a truth, and when is it an insult?| The Deleted Scenes
Catholic cities and sacramentalism, the meaning of "luxury," a Jewish Italian deli, and unselfconsciously eating less meat| The Deleted Scenes
Why don't the inventors of cultural artifacts see them as such?| The Deleted Scenes
A critique of the localist critique of Yoni Appelbaum’s “Stuck”| The Deleted Scenes
The cultural provenance of stuff nobody thinks about, and AI and the skill ladder| The Deleted Scenes
The complexity of immigration, YIMBYs, abundance, and the far right, arcade game art, and (possibly) the best cassette tapes in decades| The Deleted Scenes
Why the scale of enterprise matters| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Different perceptions of sprawl-style development| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
We don't always want what we want| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
An intersection, and a Rorschach test| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on the psychological costs of distance| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Fireplaces, social media, and making the right thing easier| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy. Click to read The Deleted Scenes, by Addison Del Mastro, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Long thoughts on characterization and fact in regional housing arguments| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
"Try it, you'll like it" applies to the built environment too| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on what we mean by "crowded"| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Meat-flavored midcentury crackers, the upside of siloed expertise, and different takes on urban crime| The Deleted Scenes
What do you call a thing that feels like it's always existed?| The Deleted Scenes
Arguments over the fighting game genre of video games and what they say about how we think| The Deleted Scenes
Informal space-sharing multiplies commercial density| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A small home business in Rovinj, Croatia| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #184| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on urbanism and old suburbia| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on an element of conservative suspicion of urbanism| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Long thoughts on travel, tourism, and maturity| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Something for everyone to disagree with| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A filling dinner and fascinating experience| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on the ease of cooking restaurant-style and fantastic consumer choice| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Long thoughts on nostalgia and redevelopment| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
And a reason to be cautious about it| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A beer, a Gameboy, and what small commercial space and comprehensible regulations give us| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Things like short walk timers and unplowed sidewalks are a form of inequality| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
How should we think about *being* in a place?| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Why communication matters so much| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A psychological barrier to persuasion| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Is urbanism a place or an idea?| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A little piece of the fascinating D.C. suburbs, and affordable commercial space| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
How reviews and ratings mess with the psychology of enjoying things| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
How to think about driving less| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
"Preemption" is the involuntary surrender of stewardship not done| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on the shrinking number of "incidental activities"| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Scammers, like traitors, degrade society, and their marks being dumb doesn't excuse them| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Am I wrong for not liking local small businesses?| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Also a coffee shop bathroom, and not knowing what we really want| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Jane Jacobs clarified a thought I've had for years| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A curious story of the afterlife of a once-standard technology| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on how we think about arriving by car| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
What someone is saying is more important than how they say it| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
The spirit of the city is not always in the city| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
The first really good buffet I've had since 2020 just opened| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Americans really do love cities, but don't have the language for it| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
My first time up close with our broken land-use and housing process| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
I know which American city *isn't* my favorite| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
A living fossil, a reminder of what our cities can offer| thedeletedscenes.substack.com