Nels Nelson
@nelscity
Urban planner in Boston. Housing supply, zoning, and land use at communityscale.com
Stage Island Monument, Biddeford, an 1825 marker that resembles a Goldsworthy
Quick estimate of which CDBG counties are penalized versus given a bonus versus exempt due to low rents under the Build Now section of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read here docs.communityscale.io/docs/build-n... Map here maps.communityscale.io?level=county...
250 years of housing 🇺🇸 this visualization uses 88 million dated property records to show the age and history of today's homes. #America250 #US250 #Housing
nowcity.org/pop-clip?sig... Now City now has more than 1,000 papers about climate migration, climate change, etc, with lat-long for the places described
Nontoxic future has a new music player experience nontoxicfuture.com#/track/878c8...
starting with the idea of a rotating "doodle" for the communityscale homepage, this is v1, employment access by neighborhood maps.communityscale.io?level=blockg...
250 Best Places to Live for 2026-2027 from @usnews.com topped by Carmel, Indiana and dominated by mid-sized suburbs. We loaded all 250 into our data platform to read the rankings through a housing supply lens communityscale.com/housing-supp...
New layer on nowcity.org - future attractiveness based on SSP5-8.5 × 70 m future climate showing utility above the local margin
I was reading Wikipedia Portal:Current Events as I do, and I thought that it was getting kinda long lately, so I plotted it nels.city/wikiwords/wi...
Fast Pattern, a quick-read viewer for all 253 patterns from A Pattern Language (1977) nels.city/fastpattern
Every hour of surfable conditions at Nahant by year. My seven (rather strictly) defined conditions have to align: low tide (±1h), swell ≥2 ft, offshore or light wind, daylight, no rain, air above 40°F, and water above 45°F. nels.city/watch/surf-h...
We collaborated with @ronikaufman.bsky.social, who used p5.js to visualize our housing data. The work explores three key metrics: the relative share of housing by structure type, the share of structures built since 2015, and vacancy rates.