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Coby Lefkowitz

Building Optimism, An Excerpt

An exploration into why our world looks the way it does, and how to make it better. In book form!

Dec 11, 2024

Building Optimism, An Excerpt

Dec 11, 2024

Observations From Paris

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

May 31, 2023

Observations From Paris

May 31, 2023

Progressive Cities Aren’t Living Up To Their Values

How Ideology is getting in the way of good city building

Apr 15, 2023

Progressive Cities Aren’t Living Up To Their Values

Apr 15, 2023

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…

Aug 17, 2022

America’s Affordable Housing Problem

Aug 17, 2022

Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive

And How Well Intentioned Policy Is Making It Worse

Jun 30, 2022

Why New York’s Rent is So Expensive

Jun 30, 2022

Why Every Main Street Looks The Same

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

May 7, 2022

Why Every Main Street Looks The Same

May 7, 2022

Why Building Better Places Isn’t About Money

Debunking the myth that good design is too expensive

Mar 10, 2022

Why Building Better Places Isn’t About Money

Mar 10, 2022

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On Building Optimism

The need for hope in the future of our built environment

Feb 7, 2022

On Building Optimism

Feb 7, 2022

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Fixing America Starts With How We Live

How restoring The Missing Middle can fix our polarized society

Jan 26, 2022

Fixing America Starts With How We Live

Jan 26, 2022

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Rules For Successful Real Estate Development

A manifesto for developers of the built environment

Dec 27, 2021

Rules For Successful Real Estate Development

Dec 27, 2021

Coby Lefkowitz

Coby Lefkowitz

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

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