"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently had a plan to spend $250 million of its COVID-19 budget to give Santa Claus a first shot at getting a _...Read More_

Paranoia and the coronavirus: how Eve Sedgwick's affect theory persists through quarantine and self-isolation “We’ve entered a break in time, where the old world before the disease becomes irretrievable. The event moves forward with such _...Read More_

“Rather than fighting or eliminating problems, consider the productivity of multiplying problems. As in Parrondo’s Paradox—the counter-intuitive game theory that pairs losing games to generate wins—problems are raw materials that can leaven _...Read More_

Tech monopolies have the money and power to shelter themselves from climate crises, for now... "It’s far from a coincidence, says Michael Wara, head of the climate and energy policy program at Stanford University’s Woods Institute. If _...Read More_

“Air pollution particles have been found on the foetal side of placentas, indicating that unborn babies are directly exposed to the black carbon produced by motor traffic and fuel burning. The research is the first study to show the _...Read More_

Underground silo bunker co-op real estate [#advertorial](/relevant/new/advertorial) in Barrons. Includes in house prison system, Whole Foods and armed guards to “pick off” loiterers.

"The algorithmic logic of the internet has begun to extend to the suburbs and rural areas the kinds of organizing capabilities that used to only be possible through the city’s density. What this means depends on the makeup of those suburbs, _...Read More_

On New York’s crumbling public transit system and what might be done to fix it. “A more empowered MTA would mean fewer costs like that, but it would also have to mean a reduction in the fetishization of community input. As a public that _...Read More_

Wow. This reads like the start of a dystopian dark comedy novel. Such a sad, and likely portentous, fate for such a beautiful place.

I clearly remember the shock that was the sight of the Brooklyn House and its surroundings. 45 story is turning this pure NY typology into a monument

Hudson yards was funded, in part, by bill eb5, a provision that offers foreign investors green cards in exchange for low interest loans. Once a strict (and still limited) law that allowed loans as low as 500,000 in exchange for job creation _...Read More_

"The prospect of creating new acreage within shouting distance of Wall Street could quickly turn an environmental tool into a real estate boondoggle, raising the specter of an offshore Hudson Yards. Patchett insists that the city would _...Read More_

Astonishing view on this soon-to-become new museum of architecture, reminiscent of Dubaï or Abu Dhabi, a cynical and distopian move. But what a beautiful article, read it on your largest screen