A conversation with World's Fair Co. founder Cam Wiese on Walt Disney, EPCOT, Dubai's museum of the future, why the World's Fair died, and why big…

February 2023

A deep dive into the growing world of roads made of plastic.

January 2023

Why don't I ever meet rural people in tech? Contrarian strategies for America's small towns. Plus, the romance of stagnation.
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December 2022

AI explains Startup Cities, interviews Jane Jacobs, pretends to be Karl Marx, and writes a hilarious film noir, a musical, a Simpsons episode, a…
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October 2022

McBasements, from parking to patios, Emergent Tokyo, agglomeration effects, remote work and housing prices, Africa's new cities, positive sum housing…
BuildCities.com co-founder Angelo Alessio on their new Web3 platform to connect – and eventually build – new communities on-chain.
A culture of serving the customers of cities must replace today's habit of blaming them.
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September 2022

The true story of when I met the mafia kingpin of Ghana's most infamous slum... and why we talked about Bitcoin.
Prompt hacking DALL-E to create cityscapes from music genres, philosophers, novelists, corporate brands, and other wild aesthetics.
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August 2022

Building lean, barriers to great urbanism, startup metrics for cities, a Startup Cities tech stack, the Network State, DAOs buying Land Banks, and much…
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Singapore's founding father on greenspace, traffic, mixed use, land prices, chewing gum bans, and Europe.

July 2022

How Kannapolis, North Carolina got built, incubated a multi-billion dollar retailer, died in a 1980's corporate takeover, and found new life as an R&D…
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