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My name is M. Nolan Gray, and this is really more of a comment than a question.
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Some Personal News (opens the original)
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Who’s Afraid of an Exterior Stairway? (opens the original)
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Why Are Dead Malls a Thing? (opens the original)
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When I was finishing my planning degree roughly a decade ago, I consumed hours of Dan Bell’s Dead Mall Series on YouTube while hunkered down in the GIS lab late into the night. This on-again, off-again preoccupation with dead malls was rekindled a few weeks ago when I visited Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento.1<a class="image-lin
A Little Bit of YIMBY Theory Weeding (opens the original)
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Over time, online discourse progressively devolves into a simulacra of discussion, distorting or dropping the underlying theory and focusing instead on rote reenactments of surface-level debates. To stem the tide of this deliberative descent—and mix a few metaphors—I would like to take a moment to do a little bit of YIMBY theory weeding.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0WhU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
Why Is There No Football Urbanism? (opens the original)
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When the aerial image of MetLife Stadium flashed up on the screen at our World Cup final watch party, the room groaned and looked over at me, the only urban planner in the room. To be sure, it isn’t exactly a triumph of site planning: surrounded by nearly 50 acres of surface parking, there is nothing within walking distance besides a shopping mall and a few hotels on the other side of a freeway.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZI39!,f_aut
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