Development cost charges are supposed to make growth pay for itself, but this conversation shows just how far that promise falls short. Norm Van Eeden Petersman, Michel Durand-Wood, and Dan Winer unpack Ontario’s deal to halve development charges, British Columbia’s per‑unit fee structure that punishes small infill, and Winnipeg’s court battle over impact fe ... Show More
Apr 22
New York’s Bracket And The Politics Of Maintenance
In New York City, a playful bracket about broken hoops and dumping sites turns routine maintenance into a citywide tournament. Carlee Alm-LaBar, Edward Erfurt, and Alexander Lazard explore what that reveals about complaint driven 311 systems, how priorities really get set, and wh ... Show More
40m 54s
Apr 8
The $600K Snow Budget That Became a $6 Million Problem
A Massachusetts town budgeted $600,000 for snow and ended up spending $6 million clearing its streets. Norm Van Eeden Petersman, Daniel Herriges, and Gracen Johnson trace the links between winter operations, stormwater, supply chains, labor, and land use in cities facing serious ... Show More
44m 17s
Apr 1
What LA’s Trash Problem Reveals About Its Streets
While Los Angeles gets ready for the Olympics and World Cup, residents watch trash pile up in the places tourists never see. Chuck, Norm, and Carlee trace the links between auto‑oriented growth, a strained city budget, and basic services that can’t keep up. Through one neighborho ... Show More
46m 17s
Apr 2024
Bruce O'Neill, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended u ... Show More
41m 57s
Nov 2023
Cedar - Kyle Vansice, Rahul Attraya, Nate Peters
Last week, Antler US portfolio company Cedar announced that it closed a $3 million seed round led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Tishman Speyer Ventures and a number of prominent individual investors (full Forbes feature here). Cedar is building an operating syst ... Show More
1h 11m
Apr 2024
Bruce O'Neill, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended u ... Show More
41m 57s
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-woda-47198b36/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Angela Woda</a> (Senior Urban Designer,
Kjellander Sjöberg Studio) and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-sj%C3%B6berg-09a35bb/" target="_blank" rel="noopener norefer ... Show More
