Addison Del Mastro
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer at The Deleted Scenes
Writer/Editor, with a focus on urbanism, culture, popular history. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thedeletedscenes.substack.com | Addison Del Mastro
I’ve been thinking further about a couple points related to zoning, and the critique of the status quo on zoning in America. This is not a new point, but I’m thinking of a slightly different dimension to it. Zoning scholar Nolan Gray has made a version of this point, with regard to discretion in zoning. I wrote this after attending a panel where Gray spoke:Gray noted that older zoning/planning literature (from the 1970s and ’80s) talks about corruption a lot.
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1 week ago |
thedeletedscenes.substack.com | Addison Del Mastro
At the Rio Lakefront development in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is this cool Dick’s Sporting Goods store:A two-story store in suburbia is rare, except in indoor shopping malls. From the outside, it looks like this: this one is now vacant, and it’s in Fairfax, Virginia, but it’s the same building model:These pictures are all from 2021 (the vacant one I used in this article).
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1 week ago |
thedeletedscenes.substack.com | Addison Del Mastro
In recent weeks, because of the new Ezra Klein/Derek Thompson book Abundance, there’s been this interesting sort of intra-left online discourse about the “abundance” movement or agenda, which is this term of art a lot of more market-friendly folks on the left have coalesced around for what was originally dubbed supply-side progressivism.
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thedeletedscenes.substack.com | Addison Del Mastro
Thank you to everyone who read, shared, followed, signed up, or subscribed this week! Onto year five!If you’re on the fence or considering subscribing, my anniversary special week is a good time. The discount offer for new subscribers that I offer every week on my newsletter’s anniversary ends tonight. If you like the work I do, please consider it. Here it is below, and at the top and bottom of every piece from the week. And as always, thank you for reading and being part of The Deleted Scenes!
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thedeletedscenes.substack.com | Addison Del Mastro
Readers: This week marks the completion of the fourth year of The Deleted Scenes—that’s four full years (every day except Sunday) of thoughtful, illustrated, locally rooted pieces on urbanism, culture, commercial history, and more. I’m offering a 20 percent discount for new subscribers, good until the end of Sunday. If you’ve been on the fence about upgrading, this is a great time. Your support—reading, sharing, and yes, subscribing—keeps this thing going.
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"That thing can't be what it is because I like it but I'm not the kind of person who likes *that*" is a sentiment that advocates have to deal with, somehow https://t.co/Tk1oISXs90 https://t.co/8Ze2M3tBJe
"A town is a *pleasant, quiet place to stroll.* The fact that the town is an urban environment—two- and three-story buildings, walk-up apartments, detached houses a block or two off Main Street, all on a grid—doesn’t even factor into the equation." https://t.co/Tk1oISXs90 https://t.co/Lq4MXPBkoq
A truck warehouse on a highway in a semirural stretch of the township outside the old town is not making a place more urban or more like a city. It may make the area more congested and polluted and noisy. Which is, of course, not the same thing. https://t.co/Tk1oISXs90 https://t.co/vG3w7NVMeF