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Give Me That Old Time Computing
A fascinating, once-ordinary store in Woodbridge, Virginia
I want to show you a really interesting store today, in Woodbridge, Virginia, along the old Route 1 corridor. This is not the nicest part of Northern Virginia; much of Woodbridge i...
Stopping Center
Today we’re in upstate New York in the town of Vestal, near Binghamton. And we’re looking at a really interesting property. I first found this because it’s near an abandoned Kmart that I initially thought I might write about (I still might)...
Japanese Tiny Businesses And American Online Businesses
I recently had a piece at , on tiny businesses in Japan and some of the regulatory reasons that make them easy for people to start and run. I followed up on that piece here at this newsletter.
My argument was that there’s no reason America...
New and Old #281
Go slow to get unstuck, We Can Have Nice Things, , August 4, 2026
If we take aesthetic concerns seriously, we can let them guide policy priorities. But it’s very important to establish up front that addressing aesthetics alone won’t solv...
The Question Of “Beauty In Architecture”
How much does it matter - and does that matter?
I recently watched a live chat on Substack with Jeff Fong, Andrew Burleson, and Stephanie Nakhleh on a perennial question in housing and urbanism discourse: how much, if at all, is NIMBYism d...
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