Good On Paper

📝🎬 Upscaled footage from 1917 shows scenes of downtown Portland, the US Custom House building, and even a sneaky shot of the second Oregon State Capitol in Salem: youtube.com/watch?v=pB6p-7… goodonpaper.com/2020/11/1917-p…

📝🏙️ Buried in a Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting from last year is this excellent presentation on the “Historical Context of Racist Planning in Portland”: youtube.com/watch?v=2vlfi0… goodonpaper.com/2020/10/racist…

📝🎬 A really great primer from Vox on how American public transit got to be the way it is today, and how we can begin to change it: youtube.com/watch?v=-ZDZtB… goodonpaper.com/2020/10/transi…

📝🚆 New York City has a new “live” digital subway map, which combines the style of the classic Vignelli map with the Tauranac/Hertz map that replaced it: goodonpaper.com/2020/10/the-ma…

📝🎬 Very excited for this Ric Burns documentary on the life of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks: youtube.com/watch?v=yfEUtP… goodonpaper.com/2020/10/oliver…

📝👟 A surprisingly fascinating deep dive by Wired into how Nike’s new "ZoomX Vaporfly Next%" shoes make runners more efficient: wired.com/story/the-scie… goodonpaper.com/2020/10/vaporf…

📝🌉 According to a new study conducted by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, 1 in 3 of America’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete: artbabridgereport.org goodonpaper.com/2020/10/bad-br…

📝🗳️ After filing a complaint about Wheeler illegally contributing to his own campaign, I spent the day digging into it—and found that the City Auditor's office is clearing the way for him to go unpunished for $$$ of illegal contributions: goodonpaper.com/2020/10/wheele…

🎟️ Hi! I'm producing Duocon, a conference about language and learning hosted by @duolingo, this coming Saturday: goodonpaper.com/2020/09/duocon/ Will be back to writing about bridges and public transit or whatever next week. twitter.com/duolingo/statu…

📝 This footage of an elevated monorail in Wuppertal, Germany, originally shot on 68mm film in 1902, has been color corrected and upscaled to 4K and is absolutely stunning: goodonpaper.com/2020/09/schweb… twitter.com/MrTimDunn/stat…

📝 From transit planner @humantransit, "Public Transit and the Postal Service Have the Same Problem": goodonpaper.com/2020/09/same-p… bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

📝 From earlier this year, Vox producer @ranjchak shares the story of Seneca Village, the Black neighborhood that was razed to provide land for the construction of New York’s Central Park: goodonpaper.com/2020/09/under/ youtube.com/watch?v=HdsWYO…

📝 It's Rain In Games, a 30 minute long supercut of rain in videogames by @jezburrows: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/rain/

📝 After almost 10 years of silence, indie supergroup Gayngs have reappeared with a new song titled Appeayl 2 U: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/appeay…

📝 Motherboard just announced a weekly newsletter about the United States Postal Service called The Mail, written by senior staff writer @A_W_Gordon: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/the-ma…

📝 The history of the Steel Bridge: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/steel-…

📝 Earlier this week, Portland City Council passed historic housing reform known as the Residential Infill Project, which re-legalizes middle housing and incentivizes building more affordable housing throughout the city: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/reside…

📝 The City of Portland has just announced that they'll be offering their annual Portland Traffic & Transportation course as an online class this year: goodonpaper.com/2020/08/transi…