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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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1 week ago | 
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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1 week ago | 
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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1 week ago | 
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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2 weeks ago | 
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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2 weeks ago | 
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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2 weeks ago | 
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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2 weeks ago | 
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.