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Observations From Paris

How Paris became one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and what we we can learn from it

24 min readMay 31, 2023

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Progressive Cities Aren’t Living Up To Their Values

How Ideology is getting in the way of good city building

39 min readApr 15, 2023

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America’s Affordable Housing Problem

How America got to be so unaffordable, and what we can do to make it more affordable; an analysis of good-in-theory v. outcome based…

56 min readAug 17, 2022

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Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive

And How Well Intentioned Policy Is Making It Worse

14 min readJun 30, 2022

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Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive

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Why Every Main Street Looks The Same

How Municipal Policy & Financial Incentives turned Main Street Into Chain Street

22 min readMay 7, 2022

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Why Every Main Street Looks The Same

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Why Building Better Places Isn’t About Money

Debunking the myth that good design is too expensive

17 min readMar 10, 2022

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Why Building Better Places Isn’t About Money

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On Building Optimism

The need for hope in the future of our built environment

13 min readFeb 7, 2022

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On Building Optimism

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Fixing America Starts With How We Live

How restoring The Missing Middle can fix our polarized society

22 min readJan 26, 2022

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Fixing America Starts With How We Live

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Rules For Successful Real Estate Development

A manifesto for developers of the built environment

17 min readDec 27, 2021

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Rules For Successful Real Estate Development

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Can ADUs Help Solve Our Housing Crisis?

In defense of the humble, but mighty, accessory dwelling unit

16 min readDec 13, 2021

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Can ADUs Help Solve Our Housing Crisis?

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Coby Lefkowitz

Coby Lefkowitz

Urbanist, Developer, Writer, & Optimist working to create more beautiful, sustainable, healthy, equitable and people-oriented places.

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