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
A way of thinking about intellectual humility| The Deleted Scenes
Thoughts on getting back into my "retro" collection| The Deleted Scenes
College town housing, Japanese electronics, thoughts on being tethered to a thing, and American opinion-makers| The Deleted Scenes
Thoughts on why housing advocacy doesn't feel like other interest groups/causes| The Deleted Scenes
Are we the same people who landed on the moon 66 years after the first flight?| The Deleted Scenes
Or making the right thing easy to do| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
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
Cheap product engineering, "ghost wineries," America's oldest drive-in theater, and fancy product engineering| The Deleted Scenes
Can urbanism as a physical form be separated from urbanism as a worldview?| The Deleted Scenes
Not everything has to be constantly updated| The Deleted Scenes
Risk is inherent in life, but it's not something to celebrate| The Deleted Scenes
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
A little (lunch) break from urbanism| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
At what level of government does zoning belong?| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Zoning absurdity at its finest in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
"Preemption" is the involuntary surrender of stewardship not done| 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
Thoughts on the shrinking number of "incidental activities"| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Friday roundup and commentary| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Urbanism as localism that isn't obstructionism| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
"Dynamic pricing," precarity, social credit, and efficiency as ideology| 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
A call for explanations| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #223| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Also a coffee shop bathroom, and not knowing what we really want| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on the psychological costs of distance| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Jane Jacobs clarified a thought I've had for years| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Can you be attached to material goods if you hate buying and consuming?| 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
We should not think of policy as being separate from, let alone at odds with, culture| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Americans really do love cities, but don't have the language for it| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
Thoughts on desire as the root of unhappiness| thedeletedscenes.substack.com
The messy eco-friendly lawn vs. the neighbors| 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
