Jeffrey Lin, who is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, recently published the following chart: I found it in this Washington Post article. And it’s packed full of fascinating information. The chart compares the socioeconomic status in US cities (y-axis) against “distance… Read More
This apartment is such a great idea: Let me explain. Freunde von Freunden (FvF) is a Berlin-based publication that documents inspiring people from creative and cultural backgrounds. If you don’t read their stuff, I think you should. Sample: Here’s an interview with Chang Lin. He… Read More
Earlier today my friend Saadat sent me the following tweet: @donnelly_b you need to apply to this: https://t.co/NrYmO1D1ge — Saadat Qadri (@saadatqadri) June 27, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It’s a link to a new research project by Y Combinator – the famed Silicon Valley seed accelerator. They… Read More
I’ve been reading the blog 5 Kids 1 Condo for, I think, about a year now. It’s written by Adrian Crook who is a single dad of 5 kids, living in a 2 bedroom condo in downtown Vancouver. And his blog is about just that.… Read More
I was looking through my photo archive this past week (which is all on an Apple Time Capsule) and I came across this photo: I took this photo in the winter of 2011 on a snowboarding trip to Lake Tahoe. It’s of the San Francisco… Read More
For some reason, I woke up extra early this morning, well before my alarm. As soon as I came to and noticed the time, I immediately reached for my phone to pull up Twitter and see what happened with the UK referendum. And frankly, I… Read More
Miriam Zuk and Karen Chapple of the University of California, Berkeley, recently published a research brief called Housing Production, Filtering and Displacement: Untangling the Relationships. It’s a nuanced look at the impact of both market-rate and subsidized housing production on affordability and displacement within the… Read More
I often get asked about my daily routine and how I manage to write, every, single, day. Oftentimes people will say that I must not sleep. But the reality is that I love sleeping and I generally need a lot of it. I’m not someone… Read More
Last weekend over dinner, a friend of mine asked me what I thought about the Scarborough Subway Extension debate going on in Toronto right now. Costs are coming in higher than initially projected and the usual back and forth is taking place. Transit blogger Steve Munro… Read More
This week, the first ever international street art festival will be taking place in Toronto. It’s called A Love Letter to the Great Lakes and it is running from June 20 to June 25, 2016. The goal of the festival is to use public works… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 