Cities in the Age of Abundance Living on the Tail The distribution of people in offices, homes, and cities will be governed by the rules of the online world. The consequences are disturbing.
Liquid Living, Immovable Cities, and Institutional Appetites This week, I was planning to write a series of short and unrelated takes. Somehow, the various takes ended up connecting and became a short essay. You can nibble each
Cities in the Age of Abundance If the New York Times Were a City, Would You Live In It? Three media empires offer important lessons about the future of offices, homes, and cities. It's been a busy month for media empires. Two weeks ago, the New York Times parted
Apple, Landlords, and the Revolt Against Monopolies Apple generates more profit from the App Store than all of Manhattan's landlords generate from rent. It also offers some important lessons about why some tenants will stop paying.Why
Cities in the Age of Abundance Is Density Destiny? Transportation and communication go hand in hand. Until the 19th Century, the speed of delivering a message was equal to the time it took a man (or woman) to carry
Did Cities Fail Us? It was an ugly week. Let's start with some poetry: “I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to
2020: Tech's Impact on Real Estate A presentation from Dror Poleg, author of Rethinking Real Estate. This is a recording from a virtual event at a large investment bank, June 4th, 2020.
Future of Work? Hold Your Horses Forget about getting things done. Most work can be done elsewhere. An office is necessary because it allows people to socialize and learn. Over the past few weeks, I've heard
Landlords are Zucked Facebook is one of the largest companies in the world. It employs 45,000 people. Yesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his views on the company's future: Over the next 5-10
Future of Work NBC: The Office of the Future “Rethinking Real Estate, a book that even before the pandemic was projecting big changes in how offices will be used in the future. He says landlords will now need to
Newsletter Outsourcing Cities, Coffee Offices, Reviving WeWork, and Shorting Campuses 1. An Office is not a Coffeeshop. On Wednesday, Antony Slumbers and I joined The Real Deal's Hiten Samtani to discuss the future of offices. Hiten brought up a suggestion
Newsletter Google Goes, Airbnb Cuts, WeWork Fights, and Common Grows I hope you and your family are well. We are still waiting for spring to officially begin here in New York. April was cold and wet. May is a mixed
Shop & Travel Home Alone: What's Next for Airbnb? "We are pausing our efforts in Transportation and Airbnb Studios, and we have to scale back our investments in Hotels and Lux[ury Properties]", says Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky. Airbnb
Study from home, live on campus. Forty-five million Americans owe more than $1.6 trillion in student debt. Such debt contributes to low home-ownership among those under 40. The cost of going to college in the
Future of Work Future of Work: Don't ask where, ask how. Many middle managers and landlords are saying (and hoping) that working at home is not productive. Most of them are missing the point. Companies in cities like New York, San
Are you ready for Post-Pandemic Posturing? Parts of the world are easing their lockdown, and corporations are trying to figure out how to get people to come out and spend.
Newsletter Clean Malls, Spacious WeWorks,Empty Schools, and Unsustainable Cities 1. Are you ready for Post-Pandemic Posturing? Parts of the world are easing their lockdown, and corporations are trying to figure out how to get people to come out and
Forty in Quarantine Today is Israel’s 72nd Independence Day. It is also my 40th birthday. I am celebrating it in New York, where I now live with my wife and daughter. My
Newsletter Unbundling Cities, Extending Airbnb, Disrupting Kitchens, and Building Startups This week's newsletter looks at the Great Covid Survey, Unbundling the City, Cleaning up Airbnb, The future of CloudKitchens, Blue Ocean Strategy, Urban Employment, the Future of Cities, and Venture Capital's shift from pure software to hard assets.
Newsletter Healthy Travel, Virtual Friends, Empty Offices, and Zoom Goats I hope you and your family are well. We just concluded Passover 2020, in exile in the suburbs, waiting for Pharaoh to let us go back to Brooklyn. The thing
Newsletter Amazon Masks, Airbnb Bailouts, Autonomous Virus, Moon Walls, and Google Errors Below are the eight most interesting things I've seen this week, at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. 1. I'm from Amazon and I'm here to help. The
Newsletter WeWork Billions, Zoom Bombings, Amazon Spouses, and Phone Weddings On Tuesday, I gave a guest lecture — via Zoom — at the University of Colorado about financing innovative real estate products. This was a great opportunity to test some of the
Newsletter Pant-less Office, Acoustic Homes, Airbnb Glut, and Bacterial Construction I hope you are well and staying productive during these strange times. Earlier this week, I led a live discussion with Antony Slumbers, Susan Freeman, Elie Finegold, and Ronen Journo
Privacy Coronavirus Response: Urban Technology in China and the U.S. Dror Poleg discusses the use of urban technology to fend of Covid-19, contrasting the advantages and risks of the Chinese and American approaches. Interviewed by Olivier Knox on SiriusXM Radio.
WeWork Cash, Amazon Code, Quarantine Leases, and Radical Localism 1. Who let the kids in? 300 million children are suddenlyhomeschooled across the world. Some parents can't wait for this experiment to end. Others might find that it's been good
