Recovering bureaucrat and urban futurist.
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Lev Kushner retweeted
4 Sep 2023
How was there never an episode about Kendall Roy going to Burning Man?
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Lev Kushner retweeted
23 Aug 2023
To draw travelers, digital nomads and new residents, cities need a new Department of Hospitality for the remote work age, write @levkushner and @Greg_Lindsay bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @CityLab
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Lev Kushner retweeted
16 Aug 2023
Interesting. Online shopping hurts new product discovery, compared to in-person shopping.
Real world = serendipity
Super cool paper
My tldr:
- When you go to the grocery store you buy whatever you feel like, discover stuff, so there's variety
- When you buy on instacart, you just buy the same things as last time, so low variety
- => online grocery shopping makes product demand less elastic
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Lev Kushner retweeted
10 Aug 2023
Customers' mode of travel
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6 Jul 2023
This looks exactly like the (currently disastrous) Powell Street BART Station in SF, which goes to show you how much housing policy impacts spaces like these.
5 Jul 2023
Copenhagen South will open in 2024 and become a new hub for:
🚇 Metro (1 direction)
🚊 S-Train (3 directions)
🚆 Intercity and Regional trains (4 directions)
📸 @ramboll and GottliebPaludan
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Lev Kushner retweeted
13 Jun 2023
Any artists out there want to design similar inspirational 'propaganda' posters for the clean energy transition?
13 Jun 2023
I've recently started adding old fashioned WW2 propaganda posters to the end of my public talks on the clean energy transition. Why? Because I think we all need more "we can, we will, we must" attitude in our approach to the very real challenges associated with the transitionm.
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Lev Kushner retweeted
13 Jun 2023
Dumb question: could you convert Westfield mall to a university campus? Turn every store into a classroom, the walkways in between become common space…
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12 Jun 2023
Insightful piece on the new frontiers AR opens up in cities by my friend @Greg_Lindsay. Should AR uses be taxed? How can cities ensure public safety? The different approaches cities take could have massive impacts on the lived experience of residents. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Lev Kushner retweeted
11 Jun 2023
WFH is shifting city centers activity from daytime to nighttime. WFH employees are heading into town after work, particularly on Friday and Saturday night.
For example, New York financial district restaurants have doubled night-time spending share since 2019.
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6 Jun 2023
RT @bruce_katz: Owner of SF's Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender sfist.com/2023/06/05/owner-o…
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Lev Kushner retweeted
26 May 2023
The internet’s ability to deliver rapid-fire national attention to every local controversy that occurs in a giant country makes federalism really really really hard to sustain.
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24 May 2023
We need clarity on when human contact is valuable during the ritual of commerce.
For low-value transactions, customer service is valuable up front to advise decision-making (clothing, meals, etc.). For high value ones, human hand holding during the actual purchase is critical.
23 May 2023
Too many restaurants have it backwards with QR code menus and paper checks.
Pulling up a menu on your phone to zoom in and out of a digital PDF, when printed paper exists: absurd
"scan this code to find and pay your check whenever you want": brilliant!
nytimes.com/2023/05/22/dinin…
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Lev Kushner retweeted
22 May 2023
"We live in a noisy world where it's increasingly hard to predict which cultural products will resonate. Online, this problem is solved by producing lots of content and seeing what sticks. Offline, it's much harder to experiment or change course. Every mistake is expensive."
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Lev Kushner retweeted
5 May 2023
New office buildings are doing better than old ones. But old buildings are easier to convert to residential.
As more new buildings suffer from remote/AI, they'll be in even bigger trouble than old ones.
3 May 2023
Even as US commercial real estate comes under pressure, smaller offices in suburbs, as well as newer buildings in central businesses districts, could be more insulated from the stress, according to Goldman Sachs Research. click.gs.com/hpdj
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Lev Kushner retweeted
3 May 2023
New report from US Surgeon General: The US is in a profound loneliness crisis.
Every measure of population-wide friendship, companionship, and social fitness is is worse than it was 20 years ago.
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Lev Kushner retweeted
3 May 2023
Inequality is the pollution of the 21st century.
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1 May 2023
RT @berkie1: Montreal installed 40 outdoor coworking spaces in neighborhoods across the City complete with free WiFi and charging. A great…
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Lev Kushner retweeted
30 Apr 2023
Efficiency is a trade-off in which the benefits are almost always more legible than the costs.
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