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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just hopped on to Bluesky for the first time in a few months. I trust we all have reasonable, mature opinions on Jason Arday, yes?

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Prior to five minutes ago, I had seen absolutely nothing about the protests on Twitter. I'm sure the brain worms currently occupying Elon's brain had nothing to do with that.

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Russell Richie 🔰🌐🏗🚲♿🏳️‍🌈 @drussellmrichie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Interested in why assessment, maybe the biggest objection to Land Value Tax – the least bad tax – might not be such a problem? Check out my new working paper: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations. Thread! github.com/drussellmric...

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Title: Land values can be estimated more accurately than property values in parameter recovery simulations.
Author: Russell Richie.
Abstract: Land value taxation is favored by economists (Clark Center Forum, 2025), yet rare in practice. This is commonly attributed to land being harder to value than total property values, because unimproved land transacts infrequently in urbanized areas where the vast majority of land value lies. Here I show with parameter recovery simulations of a simple, banal city that land values can actually be estimated more accurately than total values. I discuss how this model can be extended to more realistic settings.

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

West Philadelphians appear to be worried that an apartment building is gonna gentrify this neighborhood of $600k homes.

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Land value tax would (have) solve(d) this

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

Local homeowners and "left" NIMBYs have successfully killed the 48th/Chester "poop building". Congratulations to "Protect Squirrel Hill" on blocking a mixed-income, mid-sized apartment building, including 15 affordable units, in favor of a set of luxury homes.

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 30/05/2023

I would simply do a Red Vienna, and I would do it without residency requirements, means testing, cross-subsidy, raising anyone's property taxes, replacing any existing buildings, imposing unwanted noise or density, exacerbating parking or traffic problems, casting any shadows,

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

The year is 2030. Zoning overlays have made it illegal to build apartments in West Philadelphia. The median home price tops $1 million. UPenn professor Valerie Ross leads a successful campaign to prevent Clark Park from adding a public bathroom, for fear that it might gentrify the neighborhood

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 12/05/2023

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Feels wild that the centrist neoliberal trickle-down YIMBYs are the ones who want to build affordable housing with taxpayer money whereas the radical revolutionary Marxists are the ones who favor messy neoliberal kludges like inclusionary zoning mandates

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Housing Twitter is people who are left of 95% of the electorate and people who are left of 98% of the electorate calling each other fascists

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April King @april.social · 03/05/2023

loving the blue skies, but this made me realize how badly I’m missing urbanist twitter over here. can’t wait to get my mass transit / pedestrian / bicyclist infrastructure gang on here.

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

In lieu of "tpot" I propose the term "eigenrobot cinematic universe"

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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 02/05/2023

The socialism we need: Capitalism has failed to build badly needed housing The socialism we have: Capitalism has built enough housing

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

People will argue that "gender is just chromosomes" but also ardently insist that God, a spiritual entity who does not have any DNA, is male

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Calvo Fairy Wrangler @khicksefficient.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

This building is still in litigation hell, because of course it is

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/04/2023

This is how I'm handing out invites

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bob's burgers urbanist @yhdistyminen.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

go ahead. post another "take". no, seriously, do it, there is a severe lack of takes on this site

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes

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