Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Persistence wetland.io/art/2026-09-...wetland.ioPersistenceFifteen passes of one sweep crossed this ground on nearly the same diagonal, and the strata were laid square across it, so the count is read slab by slab rather than along a seam. A cell reached once 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026grabbing bldg geometry from openstreetmap and stacking like stones wetland.io/art/2026-09-... 000
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 18/09/202660 months of sales price data as a heat map - interactive version here maps.communityscale.io?level=home_p... 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026wetland.io/art/2026-09-... more fun with generative art 021
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nice individual ground floor entrances in this multifamily building in Sacramento 130
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m going to be in Sacramento next week at the AMPO conference showing our regions.communityscale.io regional housing data platform 000
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026taste.space.ink/ hot or not for arttaste.space.inkTaste — space.inkA blind, pairwise test of visual taste: two artworks, pick the one you like more. 300
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The tall parts of Boston make it look like a compact city, anyway 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I love these small island libraries (Great Chebeague) 000
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then an LLM is a car. 040
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Greenland is going to have a big bay after the ice is gone nowcity.org/pop-clip#vie... 000
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I crawled half a million dockets to find local pro-housing legislation examples across hundreds of cities and towns, this list has the most prolific pro-housing sponsors on bsky bsky.app/profile/did:... 131
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 04/08/2026@yimby.melbourne has a great set of missing middle designs zoning.org.au 021
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Both of these high value coastal corridors are about 500 miles long 031
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Stage Island Monument, Biddeford, an 1825 marker that resembles a Goldsworthy 020
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026New England traditional and modern hybrid in Biddeford, ME 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Quick estimate of which CDBG counties are penalized versus given a bonus versus exempt due to low rents under the Build Now section of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read here docs.communityscale.io/docs/build-n... Map here maps.communityscale.io?level=county... 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 03/07/2026250 years of housing 🇺🇸 this visualization uses 88 million dated property records to show the age and history of today's homes. #America250 #US250 #Housing 074
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 28/06/2026nowcity.org/pop-clip?sig... Now City now has more than 1,000 papers about climate migration, climate change, etc, with lat-long for the places described 010
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Inclusionary housing needs to be legally grounded in a nexus study that establishes a rational link between new market-rate housing and affordable housing demand. This week, the Met Council released the Regional Housing Nexus Study we built using public data. communityscale.com/inclusionary...communityscale.comInclusionary housing nexus calculator from open data - CommunityScaleThe Metropolitan Council just published a regional housing nexus study and inclusionary housing calculator that CommunityScale built. Here is what a nexus study is, why inclusionary housing policy dep... 021
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I made a music discovery tool that uses DJ playlists for exploring what tracks come before and after in sets nontoxicfuture.comnontoxicfuture.comnontoxic future — DJ set explorerExplore DJ sets by what they play and what gets mixed in and out. Tens of thousands of tracklists from NTS, Boiler Room, The Lot Radio and more. 030
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 13/06/2026starting with the idea of a rotating "doodle" for the communityscale homepage, this is v1, employment access by neighborhood maps.communityscale.io?level=blockg... 020
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 10/06/2026250 Best Places to Live for 2026-2027 from @usnews.com topped by Carmel, Indiana and dominated by mid-sized suburbs. We loaded all 250 into our data platform to read the rankings through a housing supply lens communityscale.com/housing-supp... 030
Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social · 03/06/2026New layer on nowcity.org - future attractiveness based on SSP5-8.5 × 70 m future climate showing utility above the local margin 050
