Experimental Geography

Everyone agrees that housing in San Francisco is expensive, and that the high costs are hurting the city. But there is a lot of disagreement about why the rent is so expensive, and what to do about it.
Sonja Trauss of SFBARF has argued that costs are high because there is not enough housing to go around and that the answer is to build more. Tim Redmond of 48 Hills has argued that building more housing would make the problem worse because the people...

Current US standard traffic signal engineering practice does not create acceptable walking environments. Digital signal controllers with required pushbutton wiring for audible signals and mandated minimum crossing times have permanently disrupted the...

Steph and I spent last week in New Orleans. Everything I saw brought to mind thoughts about infrastructure, engineering, and resilience, but perhaps not for the reason you would expect.
Certainly the memory of Hurricane Katrina is strong. Everywhere you go, streets are torn up for projects to keep the city from flooding again....