2026-09-16
Permitting and Total Project Durations by City and Project Type. Source: Evan Soltas Evan Soltas has a big first-of-its-kind paper measuring permitting and construction durations for standardized housing projects across …
As I’ve written before (see item #3 here ), the housing shortage is disproportionately affecting the young, with first time buyers and renters paying unusually large shares of their income to housing, compared to long ru…
Is it classical or modern? An image of Casa Botines in Leon, Spain, designed by Gaudi. Image Source: Wikipedia My career began in architecture, so reading Robert Kwolek on whether people prefer traditional buildings and …
This week I read what I wished I was reading last week : a detailed explanation of how Australia’s clinical trial system compares to that of the United States. The key difference is in their phase one trials, which are t…
Back in May I wrote about David Bessis’ essay “ The fall of the theorem economy ”. In it, he argued that theorem proving has historically been a reliable proxy for producing conceptual innovation and insight in mathemati…
A new working paper by Garrison Schlauch and Simon Greenhill last week tries to estimate the property value impact of large data centers, based on a new sample of nearly 350 data center announcements since 2003 (drawn fr…