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Billy Cooney

Making sense of cities through book reviews and essays

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In 2017, Asheville’s City Council blocked a proposal for an Embassy Suites hotel downtown. The developer brought a full slate of expert witnesses to the development hearing to show the project satisfied every condition the city re...

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A City is Not a Cake

In my latest piece for Streetsblog USA, I look at how zoning and road regulations often freeze cities in place, and why allowing for experimentation and incremental change can make them more livable and less car-dependent.

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Run For Your Life

This will be the first of two posts I’m sharing this week linking to articles I recently published elsewhere. This one is for my latest piece in Asheville’s local paper, Mountain Xpress.

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