Henry Grabar
@henrygrabar
my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
love this from Slate's "Party like it's '96" series. excited for the first challenge! slate.com/1996-sign-up...
"In 1990, fewer than 5% of Americans had a passport. Now, more than 50% do..." www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
don't want to overstate the power of $2m in a congressional primary but i appreciate the humor of Andy Ogles losing his job bc of Big Wind and Solar money www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
Apparently *not* a valid way to skirt rent stabilization laws (alleged in a lawsuit filed against the owners of the American Copper buildings in NY)
Unbelievable and very scary Météo-France forecast for Paris nighttime temperatures this week: Tues, Weds, Thurs nights the low temp will not go below 86!
very amusing and informative @willoremus.com piece on "GEO" replacing "SEO" as businesses make a play for bots' attention www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
We love to see it! Housing up, incomes up, population up, diversity up. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/02/a...
in an era of premium experiences and skyrocketing prices, one spectacle stands apart...
yeah it's hideous and another funny thing is, i heard "international developer" and i was like.. yeah right! but then:
well, it took a year and change, but Cambridge's first-in-the-nation project to upzone the entire city for 4-to-6 story residential has finally produced the kind of thing it was supposed to: 55 units, 20 percent affordable, replacing a single $3m home
back in my day you'd just throw a couple of trash cans in the street and do the thing, but i concede that the changing trash can design makes that hard (in my memory they were orange tho?)
Came across a true shared street in Cambridge yesterday. Note the sidewalks (never ADA accessible anyway, too narrow) are gone- treebeds extended to property line, no curbs or curb cuts, just one flat surface from stoop to stoop.
from the nation that brought you "minimum lot size"... comes a new land use requirement...
imagining future European-Americans returning to the mother country, on pilgrimage to see where their parents came from (Lennar-brand tract home in the Dallas exurbs) bsky.app/profile/etba...
this explains a lot of the new york baseball-transplant discourse. and you have to remember the G used to go to Forest Hills.
trying to imagine the conversation where the Bay Area FIFA host committee psych themselves up about this
bad combo. the "stagflation" of downtown problems. www.stltoday.com/opinion/edit...
all the aesthetes who believe nothing ugly was built before 1945 need to come on a trip to Boston
new harvard economics building is really going to be hideous. it is kind of funny how they crammed it on the Sert side of the landmark line though.
i feel like when this ends up on your list you need to throw out your whole methodology