This past Sunday was the 3rd anniversary of this blog. That is 3 years of me writing something here every day (I think I’ve only missed 2 days in the past 3 years). So I have now written almost 1,100 blog posts. Admittedly, they weren’t… Read More
I know it’s only August, but I am already thinking of snowboarding. And I just recently learned that the British Columbia government has given the go ahead for a new multi-peak and year-round ski destination near Valemount, BC. The summits will include Mount Pierre Elliot… Read More
The following chart was created by Branko Milanovic (Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York and Senior Scholar, Luxumberg Income Centre) and by Christoph Lakner (Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. It is known as the “elephant graph” because,… Read More
I was recently asked: How do you go into a neighborhood, build new, and not erase and/or sterilize what makes that neighborhood interesting in the first place? Gentrification is a controversial topic in city building. Too often I think we ignore what happens when we… Read More
I used to be more into photography. In architecture school, I had an old Canon Rebel and a photoblog where I posted one photo every day. Clearly I have a thing for daily routines. But that was the pre-social media era and before mobile phones… Read More
Like a lot of people, I am always on the lookout for productivity tools and hacks. This is an old post, but I love the idea of getting rid of voicemail (I hate checking it) and of 3×5 cards where you focus yourself on 3-5… Read More
Barry Ritholtz recently published an article in Bloomberg View called: Still a Lot of Negativity on Housing. He basically says that “many people” should go out and buy a home given the current state of the US housing market and the historically low interest rates. That’s… Read More
The City of London is looking for a “Night Czar” to help shape and grow the city as a 24-hour destination. Here’s a snippet from the job posting: “The Night Czar will champion the value of London’s night time culture whilst developing and diversifying London’s night… Read More
What happens when wages and real estate prices become too high in a city? Companies start growing in lower cost locations. We’ve all seen this before. Fred Wilson recently blogged about this “spillover effect”, citing a New York Times article talking about the growth of tech offices… Read More
Jones Lang LaSalle recently asked: Is there still room for the buccaneer property developer? But in the contemporary world of real-estate – corporatized, institutionalized and massively capitalized – is there any longer room for the swashbuckling “merchant developers” or are they doomed to go the… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 