Devon Zuegel
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  • Order Without Design, my podcast about cities
  • Tools & Craft, my podcast about tools for thought
  • If you like what I do, sponsor my work
  • For occasional updates, here's my newsletter
  • Here are some podcasts & conferences I've spoken at
  • Highlighted pages from around the web: #clipping
  • Trains & trees & human-scale streets: #cities
  • How we relate to others & ourselves: #interpersonal
  • Bicycles for the mind: #tools-for-thought
  • Developers! Developers! Developers! #programming
  • Let's go on an adventure! #travel

Tapas

I want to see more art that shows how mundane tasks, intimate moments, and everyday interactions change in the future we've built!

here are some examples I like better: pic.twitter.com/ZjLDHrJJ1t

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) November 12, 2021

I want to live in a world where I can walk my kids to school during the week and on the weekend take them on a joyride down Highway 1 in my Porsche 356

I mean just look at how beautiful this thing is:
(not mine... yet!) pic.twitter.com/WHOqyzY9b0

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) November 2, 2021

2/
- appreciation of ecologies, including human ones
- plants, trees, & flowers everywhere!
- renewable energy
- optimism, in contrast to cyberpunk's pessimism
- DIY mentality
- decentralization & devolution of authority
- human-scale cities rather than hypertrophic ones

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) November 3, 2021

exhibit A for the benefits of jurisdictional diversity https://t.co/KuhbFnrh9I

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) September 30, 2021

when planes were invented, our system of property rights had to be reinvented too

common law had established if one owns land, "it is theirs all the way to Heaven and to Hell"

so when planes began to fly, there were some interesting proposals for avoiding aerial trespass... pic.twitter.com/2JIVgujT4C

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) October 15, 2021

Fun fact: SimCity was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground, because the game would be “really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots” https://t.co/MiVMM9S1yk pic.twitter.com/0p8Qscm3Kv

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) June 29, 2018

Miami has the most solarpunk aesthetic of any American city I've seen ☀️🌴🌺 pic.twitter.com/AlWdFG8CAp

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) July 12, 2021

As I build a mental map of the startup cities industry, I’ve grouped the motivations I've seen for why people are working on these projects into 5 categories: https://t.co/hOVmYzM8bq

Thread with a brief summary of each category 🧵

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) July 2, 2021

Shenzhen's GDP averaged 40% annual growth between 1980 and 2000 pic.twitter.com/L8BNwGV1eZ

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) June 23, 2021

This still blows my mind pic.twitter.com/yK8A2sHAt7

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) November 26, 2017

Paris is almost entirely ≤6 stories. If SF were built to that standard, we'd have 3x the housing supply. pic.twitter.com/bSifTqa3i3

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) June 11, 2017

Trying out a new meme format... pic.twitter.com/e6GNlNnDkd

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) July 29, 2021

"We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."
— Ellen Ullman

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) June 8, 2019

in discussions of declining fertility rates, the fact that many women are terrified of giving birth almost never comes up

women are acutely aware that pregnancy can be extremely painful, cause lifelong physical damage, and even be life-threatening

this seems... relevant...

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) October 19, 2021

remote work has unlocked a new level of inter-national competition. the 2020s are going to be wild https://t.co/a5pBAi1dgp

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) October 30, 2021

It reminds me of when I first started researching startup cities. I'd thought it was a promising hypothetical idea, but not an active space yet. I was shocked to learn there are already *thousands* of SEZs in the world! https://t.co/wzDDP9tUWs

— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) October 25, 2021


  • Order Without Design, my podcast about cities
  • Tools & Craft, my podcast about tools for thought
  • If you like what I do, sponsor my work
  • For occasional updates, here's my newsletter
  • Here are some podcasts & conferences I've spoken at
  • Highlighted pages from around the web: #clipping
  • Trains & trees & human-scale streets: #cities
  • How we relate to others & ourselves: #interpersonal
  • Bicycles for the mind: #tools-for-thought
  • Developers! Developers! Developers! #programming
  • Let's go on an adventure! #travel