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Ben Southwood

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Salim Furth(@salimfurth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The best YIMBY essay of the year is by Eleanor West and Marko in Works in Progress. How, politically, did 🇳🇿 upzone so much? And is the backlash going to undo their work?
worksinprogress.co/issue/upzoning…

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Joel MacManus(@JoelMacManus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is outstanding work from Marko and Eleanor West. Should be required reading for everyone who cares about housing and cities in NZ.

worksinprogress.co/issue/upzoning…

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Nick Whitaker(@ns_whit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very few countries currently have the geography for geothermal to supply any substantial amount of power. But new geothermal techniques might allow us to harness the energy of the earth anywhere.
worksinprogress.co/issue/watt-lie…

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Nick Whitaker(@ns_whit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This piece has the wonderful quality of being an insanely grand claim - 1000+ years of historical causation - yet is impeccably defended with different threads of evidence.
worksinprogress.co/issue/how-math…

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Chris Elmendorf(@CSElmendorf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵. Read these three fantastic pieces together:

1. Eleanor West & Marko on the backlash to nationwide upzoning of R1 neighborhoods in New Zealand, worksinprogress.co/issue/upzoning…

2. Anya Martin on how block-level 'opt-outs' saved citywide upzoning of same type of...

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Ben Southwood(@bswud) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This article in the latest Works in Progress explains how we might VAPORISE ROCK with LASERS to get at the nearly-unlimited, free, green power flowing endlessly out of the earth's core.

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Mano Majumdar(@manosijm_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Chuffed to be published in Works in Progress alongside a particularly rich cohort of essays on progress. In this issue, read about upzoning New Zealand, mathematics preempting science, entrepreneurial states, science's sleeping beauties, and the fallen angel that is asbestos.

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