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The Deleted Scenes Top 10 of 2021

New and Old #38

The Christmas Song Cultural Barometer

Have You Ever Lived in a Strip Mall?

Everyone's a Little Bit NIMBY

A Great Everyday Neighborhood

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Thanks for Reading!

New and Old #37

Christmas Song Trivia

Highway Archaeology

Inhabiting Old Ghosts

Images of Christmas

A Box in Two Stories

New and Old #36

The Rest of Somerville, NJ: Part 2

Midcentury Modern and Asphalt

D.C. Metro Adventures

The Rest of Somerville, NJ: Part 1

How Do You Shop?

New and Old #35

The Supermarket Downstairs

A Lesson in Adaptive Reuse

Going Nowhere Fast

Have You Ever Seen a Nursery Like This?

The Christmas Clock

New and Old #34

A Hint of America's Lost Urban History

The Architectural Public Domain

The Rhythm of the Seasons

A Small Town With a Big Department Store

How Many Places Are Worth Living In?

New and Old #33

Ribbing and Ragging

Buildings With a Drive-Thru

Does "Overdevelopment" Exist?

When Small Towns Wanted Tall Buildings

Necessary But Impossible?

New and Old #32

Hilltop Hotel Rises

Glass Blocks, Glass Blocks, Glass Blocks

The Record-Tape Missing Link

Development and Open Space in Madison, NJ

The Rummage Sale

New and Old #31

Floating in the Air

A Small Virginia Market

NIMBYism and Existence Value

Pandemic Memories

Urbanism and Perception

New and Old #30

A Little More on Rockville Pike

Is This Really a Strip Mall?

Spread Out or Smashed Together?

The Rest of Fairfax

Lonely Condiments

New and Old #29

Main Street Manufacturing

A Magnificent Liquor Store in High Bridge, NJ

A Dish I Knew Existed

A Lament for Open Borders

The Highway of Theseus

New and Old #28

Do NIMBYs Love Beautiful Buildings?

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #28

Election Nights and Ice Cream Cones

To Grill a Steak

New Jersey Driving

New and Old #27

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #27

Happy Birthday, Paul Simon

The Birthday Song in the Buffet

Baltimore's Lovely Cookie-Cutter Rowhouses

Cassette Tapes and Madeleines

New and Old #26

The Spider Skeleton

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #26

We're Still Making Car Cassette Players

What Kind of House Is This?

Mental Separation of Uses

New and Old #25

Apple Orchard Upzoning

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #25

What If I Want to Walk?

Apartments, Ownership, and Responsibility

Buffet Economics

New and Old #24

Office Depot Time Capsule

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #24

What is Zoning?

Trump Town

California Zoning

New and Old #23

The Chester Houses

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #23

Cooking Every Day

The Screen Where You Started

Cross the Street, Pay the Fine?

New and Old #22

Crickets on the Exit Ramp

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #22

Meat and Money in Northern Virginia

What Is This Newsletter?

Night Walking

New and Old #21

More on "Commercial Density"

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #21

The Modular, Repairable "Big Blue"

The Path of Most Desire

The Lively D.C. Suburbs

New and Old #20

Iconic Hometown Restaurant, Obsolete Dining Concept?

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #20

A Little More on Parking Lots

Google Menu and Algorithmic Weirdness

The Housing Crisis is a Policy Problem

New and Old #19

Unnerved in the City

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #19

The Curious Case of the Last Record Changer

Growing Up in College Park

Of Buffets and Seafood Boils

New and Old #18

Corned Beef? Turn On the Oven

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #18

Can An Urbanist Own a House?

A Different Way Home

The Strangest Housing Development I've Ever Seen

New and Old #17

Pennsylvania's Unique Housing Crisis

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #17

Congestion, Time, and Distance

Speeding and the Eucharistic Prayer

The Salad Bar and the International Supermarket

New and Old #16

The Small Towns of the City

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #16

The Best Steak

Taking Off the Car Blinders, Opening Your World

Post-COVID Stress Disorder

New and Old #15

NIMBYs and Neocons

The Rest of Vienna

The Sun Sets on Harvest Moon

Kinney Shoes' Architectural Afterlife

Thoughts on Restaurants and "Service"

New and Old #14

Supermarkets and Diversity

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #15

The Great Unsettledness

A Different Take on Suburban Parking Lots

The Name of the K-Mart Façade

New and Old #13

A Piece of New Jersey We'll Never Build Again

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #14

Plant-Based Patties, Italian Peasant Style

Secondhand Supermarkets, Part II

Why are Airbnbs so Comfy?

New and Old #12

Reopening Pains

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #13

A Belated Introduction

Secondhand Supermarkets

What's in a Shelf?

New and Old #11

America is 20 Miles of Route 50

America is 20 Miles of Route 50

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #12

Waking Up to the Joy of Clock Radios

Route 1 in Two Years

Some Thoughts Inspired by D.C. Restaurants

New and Old #10

The Dismal Great Dismal Swamp

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #11

Assorted Thrift Store Thoughts

Northern Virginia Is a Real Place

A Little Pushback on a Lefty Urbanist Style

New and Old #9

Do Not Re-Enter?

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #10

Station Wagons and Affluence

300 People and History in Clifton, VA

Master of Tape

New and Old #8

Vornado's Long Life

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #9

Fishing for Parts

Suburban Archaeology

Simple Dishwashers

New and Old #7

Walmart, Sam's Club, and...Bud's?

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #8

The Phylogeny of the Watch

A Wide, Wide Road

An Appreciation of the Capital Weather Gang

New and Old #6

The Rest of Staunton

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #7

Thoughts on Density and Distance

Chinese Takeout Tips

More Thoughts on "Why We Drive"

New and Old #5

With Great Power

The Treasures of Route 11

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #6

What Does Waterford Mean?

The Meaning of "Going to Work"

Mechanical Romance

New and Old #4

If You Build a Speedway, They Will Speed

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #5

WeWorking Here!

Canal Sprawl

Wings of Fire

New and Old # 3

Fry’s Electronics and the End of the Self-Made Computer

Epicurious and the "Meat Discourse"

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #4

Locked Down, Growing Up?

Living in the Motel

Arcade Games: Art Not Meant to Be Seen

New and Old #2

Third Place at the Drive-Thru

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #3

Introducing paid subscriptions

Light at The End of The Vial

Deleted Scenes Double Header

Strip Malls or Streets?

New and Old #1

Why Not Put the Meat *In* the Bread?

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #2

Dollar Stores and Retail Evolution Revisited

How Cheap is Broken?

Mayberry Wasn't a Subdivision

The Japanese Arcade Game That Predicted "Tough on Crime"

A Little Bit of Motel

The Glory of Tomato Paste

Dodging a Car

The Cheapest CD Player, Plus Lou Ottens

Thoughts on Transit - Free or Otherwise

Introducing “The Deleted Scenes”

Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy