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Sinners: How Zoning Criminalized Migration
Zoning is a controversial and complicated mess. This piece discusses the origin story of zoning and how public health innocuously disguised its premise.
Jul 28, 2025
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The Original Lake Shore Drive
Apr 23, 2025
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Old Ways
Nov 13, 2024
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Don't Think Just Do
Dec 2, 2024
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The Original Lake Shore Drive
Understanding how Lake Shore Drive began and where we go from here.
Apr 23, 2025
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Montreal radicalized me - it should radicalize you too
Thank you to all for your patience while I completed my winter term finals at the University of Washington. Hope you enjoy the next piece!
Mar 31, 2025
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Fix It First
Hope the new year is treating everyone well. Enjoy this piece about our crumbling roadway systems and how our legislation to fix it might not be what it…
Jan 21, 2025
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Don't Think Just Do
Hello to all newcomers far and wide.
Dec 2, 2024
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Old Ways
To those who are reading for the first time, welcome to my substack.
Nov 13, 2024
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Sep 28, 2024
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