Saturday Assorted Links
Key Takeaways
- •Aesthetic objections to building designs frequently serve as a unifying force for otherwise disparate neighborhood groups, making it harder to expand housing supply in high-demand cities.
- •Some inner London boroughs are experiencing relative affordability improvements, reversing gentrification patterns observed over the past two decades due to remote work trends and post-Brexit population shifts.
- •A meta-analytic study found no significant relationship between adolescent social media use and school grades or behavioral problems, challenging widely publicized claims about social media harm.
- •The effectiveness of central banks abandoning formal forward guidance as a communication strategy is being questioned in financial policy circles.
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What do consultants get paid for?
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Ugly architecture creates coalitions against development. The phenomenon is well-documented in urban planning literature, where aesthetic objections frequently serve as a unifying force for otherwise disparate neighborhood opposition groups, complicating efforts to increase housing supply in high-demand cities.
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London is, modestly, degentrifying. The trend reflects a reversal of patterns seen over the past two decades, with some inner-city boroughs experiencing relative affordability shifts tied to changing work-from-home patterns and population movement following Brexit and the pandemic.
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Is the “no forward guidance” approach failing? (FT)
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Chinese interview with Christopher Nolan.
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“Social media use and school grades are unrelated for adolescents… meta-analytic evidence is not in support of dramatic claims relating social media use to mischief.” Link here. The findings add to a growing body of research challenging widely publicized claims linking social media to adolescent harm, though the debate among researchers remains unsettled.