Patrick Lamson-Hall

urban expansion, charter cities, densification, climate change, satellite imagery, and all things data, mostly in LDCs

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

I'm excited to start my new journey with this brilliant new institution!

[Africa Urban Lab @AfricaUrbanLab]

🚨 Big news! We're excited to welcome Dr. Patrick Lamson-Hall to AUL as Lead of our Urban Expansion & the Periphery research cluster!

@plamsonhall is pioneering new ways to manage rapid city growth through urban expansion planning. Read his essay: https://t.co/xhjO9InBCv

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[Massimo Mazzone @MassimoMazzone4]

Nuria and Patrick at https://t.co/811aooUc7d are the best urban planners I had the fortune to get to know. Everything in their work is firmly based on the economics and trade-offs of the clients. One-stop shop for market-based urbanism and architecture.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

In 2019 @MassimoMazzone4 invited @nuforpui and I to design his new charter city, Ciudad Morazan. It’s become one of the projects I’m most proud of. We created a place that works for low-income Hondurans, supporting entrepreneurship in a safe and affordable community.

[Charter Cities Institute @CCIdotCity]

@MassimoMazzone4, the mastermind behind @CiudadMorazan, envisions a city where good governance is a service. Through entrepreneurial zeal and a commitment to customer satisfaction, Morazán is redefining what it means to live in a free society.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

An amazingly comprehensive and civil thread demolishing the claims of the “new housing makes cities less affordable” crowd.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@mnolangray It’s clearly driven by natural beauty.

[Kurtis Lockhart @kurtislockhart]

Hugely grateful to @slatestarcodex for this ACX grant to help establish a new African School of Economics campus in Zanzibar, anchoring @CCIdotCity's flagship new city project -- Fumba Town!!!

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https://t.co/6NM3iUylSC

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@MassimoMazzone4 Amazing news!

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@kurtislockhart I’m getting my ticket today!

[Africapolis @AfricapolisSWAC]

Welcome 👋to the official #Africapolis account, a tool used to map and analyse African urbanisation. Follow us to learn how to make the most out of Africapolis data and analysis. This account will feature maps, figures and facts related to the work of @SWAC_OECD on urbanisation.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

Lovely reminder that another world is possible.

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

Japan takes this even further with nuisance-based zoning: https://t.co/cCEScwWYQB

There are 12 levels of nuisance, ranging from "no nuisance, purely residential" all the way up to "extreme nuisance, can have as much industrial as you want". You can build a home in a high nuisance zone if you want – you just may not want to!

Practically you can think of this as a blacklist rather than a whitelist, i.e. all uses are allowed except those explicitly disallowed, rather than all uses are disallowed except those explicitly allowed

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@LynAldenContact Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what the heck happened in 2010 that caused the enormous jump on the graph? Did they change how the indicator is calculated?

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@WisecarsLtd I’m at a car rental agency after a 7 hour red eye, my reservation has an error, and you’ve hung up on me four times. What am I supposed to do now? #badservice #scam

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@DaveEvansPhD Tyranny of Experts by @bill_easterly

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

Amazing work coming from my favorite Indian startup!

[Urban Expansion Observatory India @UXO_India]

We @UXO_India and our incubated Startup Valectus launches "Swachhata Har Kadam" app for PCMC to monitor real time toilet cleanliness & Infrastructure status using GIS. Spatial analytics, IoT, Artificial Intelligence has ability to make robust data driven system.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@HighRantDistric @shanedkavanaugh @mfriesen The many many homeless working poor could presumably pay up to whatever they were last paying in rent. The large portion who are veterans or receiving SSI could pay whatever the going rate was before the city forced out the last of the SROs. But it would end up being less.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

#WUF11 was amazing. So many great conversations! Big thanks to @Nicogalarza and @emesalazart for documenting my badly formatted (but very informative!) presentation on planning in the global south.

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

@UrbanDemog @trnsprtst @NYUMarron But really intense regulations make it almost impossible to knock old buildings down and put up bigger structures, so we have buildings and transport tech from the early 20th century, but with 21st century household sizes and incomes.

[Nicolás Galarza @Nicogalarza]

#WorldUrbanForum fue un gusto moderar y participar del evento de "New Land for Migrants" de @NYUMarron y @CitiesAlliance, junto a expertos como @plamsonhall.

De aquí a 2050 puede haber 200 millones de migrantes climáticos en el mundo, por lo que es un reto urgente @MinAmbienteCo

[Patrick Lamson-Hall @plamsonhall]

Honestly refreshing to hear clear and basic messaging