Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
Modern high-rises lack the plumbing, exterior-facing windows and internal footprint of buildings intended for housing, making it expensive and difficult to convert some buildings. But some states are trying to promote conversions by waiving development impact fees, introducing tax incentives and streamlining zoning changes to spur office-to-housing conversions.
Converting Offices to Housing Is Hard. These Changes Could Make It Easier. | the Pew Charitable Trusts
Erika Bolstad
On the surface, Caplan wrote, he and his white neighbors shared a vague, unsettling sense that things would somehow be different, less manageable, less familiar.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Parking requirements helped trigger an extinction-level event for bite-sized, infill apartment buildings like row houses, brownstones, and triple-deckers; the production of buildings with two to four units fell more than 90 percent between 1971 and 2021.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise