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The Case Against Banning Data Centers
The Backlash Makes for Good Politics but Bad Policy
8 hrs ago • Ryan Puzycki
Make No Little Plans
Vision and Myopia in the Plan of Chicago
Oct 23 • Ryan Puzycki
The Anti-Property Property Tax
Could a Land Value Tax Lower Austin’s Property Tax Bills?
Oct 16 • Ryan Puzycki
YIMBY: It’s the Law!
Why Housing Needs Legal Champions
Oct 9 • Ryan Puzycki
What (Actually) Happened in Austin
Reckoning with Supply and Demand
Oct 2 • Ryan Puzycki
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The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
Nov 14, 2025 • Ryan Puzycki
Sanctuary Suburbs
Apr 23 • Ryan Puzycki
An Urbanist Reading List
May 9, 2025 • Ryan Puzycki and Diana Lind
When “Single-Family” Isn’t Family-Friendly
Mar 26 • Ryan Puzycki
Aging in Place Is a Mobility Problem
What Spain Can Teach America
Sep 17 • Ryan Puzycki
Reflections on Absence
Twenty-Five Years of Never Forgetting
Sep 10 • Ryan Puzycki
What Spain Gets Right—and Wrong—about Urbanism
The Disappearance of the Spanish Street
Sep 3 • Ryan Puzycki
The Guggenheim Effect, Revisited
What It Really Takes to Rebuild a City
Aug 27 • Ryan Puzycki
Paved for People
What Montreal Gets Right About Car-Free Streets
Aug 20 • Ryan Puzycki
A Building is a Blessing
Why Does Affordable Housing Take a Miracle?
Aug 13 • Ryan Puzycki
A City, If You Can Keep It
The American City and the Making of Citizens
Jul 30 • Ryan Puzycki
The Political City
Pierre Charles L’Enfant and the Planning of Washington, D.C.
Jul 23 • Ryan Puzycki
Rowhome Revolution
Reviving America’s Original Middle-Class Urban Housing
Jul 16 • Ryan Puzycki
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