I crawled half a million dockets to find local pro-housing legislation examples across hundreds of cities and towns, this list has the most prolific pro-housing sponsors on bsky bsky.app/profile/did:...
Nels Nelson
@nelscity.bsky.social
Urban planner in Boston. Housing supply, zoning, and land use at communityscale.com
Both of these high value coastal corridors are about 500 miles long
Stage Island Monument, Biddeford, an 1825 marker that resembles a Goldsworthy
Quick estimate of which CDBG counties are penalized versus given a bonus versus exempt due to low rents under the Build Now section of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Read here docs.communityscale.io/docs/build-n... Map here maps.communityscale.io?level=county...
250 years of housing 🇺🇸 this visualization uses 88 million dated property records to show the age and history of today's homes. #America250 #US250 #Housing
nowcity.org/pop-clip?sig... Now City now has more than 1,000 papers about climate migration, climate change, etc, with lat-long for the places described
Inclusionary housing needs to be legally grounded in a nexus study that establishes a rational link between new market-rate housing and affordable housing demand. This week, the Met Council released the Regional Housing Nexus Study we built using public data. communityscale.com/inclusionary...
Inclusionary housing nexus calculator from open data - CommunityScale
The Metropolitan Council just published a regional housing nexus study and inclusionary housing calculator that CommunityScale built. Here is what a nexus study is, why inclusionary housing policy dep...
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I made a music discovery tool that uses DJ playlists for exploring what tracks come before and after in sets nontoxicfuture.com
nontoxic future — DJ set explorer
Explore DJ sets by what they play and what gets mixed in and out. Tens of thousands of tracklists from NTS, Boiler Room, The Lot Radio and more.
nontoxicfuture.com
starting with the idea of a rotating "doodle" for the communityscale homepage, this is v1, employment access by neighborhood maps.communityscale.io?level=blockg...
250 Best Places to Live for 2026-2027 from @usnews.com topped by Carmel, Indiana and dominated by mid-sized suburbs. We loaded all 250 into our data platform to read the rankings through a housing supply lens communityscale.com/housing-supp...
The best part about an RSS feed is that it has an end. I'd like a social media feed that takes a similar approach to only showing new posts once
New layer on nowcity.org - future attractiveness based on SSP5-8.5 × 70 m future climate showing utility above the local margin
I've been playing with global datasets to imagine urban planning for The Long Now @longnow.org, see the map here https://nowcity.org/
Now City · Urban planning for the long now
Every place at or below 70 meters elevation has joined the ocean, the world after the ice is gone. An interactive open-data map of the long-term sea level rise ceiling.
nowcity.org
I was reading Wikipedia Portal:Current Events as I do, and I thought that it was getting kinda long lately, so I plotted it nels.city/wikiwords/wi...
Fast Pattern, a quick-read viewer for all 253 patterns from A Pattern Language (1977) nels.city/fastpattern