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Paavo Monkkonen
@elpaavo.bsky.social
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Housing scholar - California, Mexico, France, Hong Kong
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elpaavo.bsky.social
first time seeing Marina Central Park promo from @streetsforall.org this is so cool, let's do it! www.marinacentralpark.com
Marina Central Park
www.marinacentralpark.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Has anyone tried to compare the pace / rate of implementation of bike infra plans in California?
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
RIP!
edwinheathcote.bsky.social Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 3d
Frank in his kitchen. RIP.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Early reyes for me, this book on Carlos Contreras is hitting the spot - he brought US planning ideas to Mexico in the 1920s…
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
👀 🏴‍☠️ ⛵️
lhaasis.bsky.social Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 11d
What secrets does a pirate graveyard keep? What stories are buried in one of the world’s most famous pirate cemeteries on Sainte-Marie Island, Madagascar – once a major 17th–18th century pirate hideout? Join us on Monday and find out: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #history
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen
resnikoff.bsky.social
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Culver City FTW !
cohenhouse.bsky.social Joe Cohen @cohenhouse.bsky.social · 20d
Culver City's single stair ordinance has been approved by the state, so you can now build single-stair apartment buildings up to six stories
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Y’all see any new interesting housing / urban research lately? this one looks great helena-pedrotti.github.io/assets/docs/...
helena-pedrotti.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
I found another one!
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Paris to Madrid in 6h woah como???
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Nov 5
We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040.

It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️
A map of Europe titled “High-speed rail plan” showing future high-speed train connections and travel times. Green lines represent future new connections, and magenta lines represent future train travel times. Major cities are marked with circles and connected by these lines. Examples of travel times include: Lisbon–Madrid (3h), Paris–Brussels (1h15), Paris–Rome (6h), Berlin–Warsaw (4h15), Berlin–Prague (2h30), Berlin–Vienna (4h30), Berlin–Budapest (6h15), Berlin–Stockholm (4h), Riga–Tallinn (1h45), Vilnius–Riga (2h), Sofia–Athens (6h). The map includes the EC logo in the bottom right corner.
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Parabens to the Fundacao Joao Pinheiro! panel is on now, here’s the English feed: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BL7x...
(tradução) 2º dia - Seminário internacional 30 anos da pesquisa do Déficit Habitacional no Brasil
YouTube video by Fundação João Pinheiro Oficial
m.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Most famous person to pass beyond the veil in Santa Monica ? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
with everything going on, don't you want to zoom to a conference in Belo Horizonte tomorrow morning at 8:45 PST to hear some housing nerds talk about vacancy and deficits?

fjp.mg.gov.br/seminario-in...
Seminário Internacional – 30 anos da pesquisa do Déficit Habitacional no Brasil |
Referência nacional em estudos e pesquisas sobre gestão pública e desenvolvimento social, a Fundação João Pinheiro irá promover o Seminário Internacional 30 anos da Pesquisa Déficit Habitacional no Brasil nos dias 11 e 12 de novembro/2025, no Auditório do BDMG,…
fjp.mg.gov.br
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen
uclalewiscenter.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to begin our 2025-26 Housing Lecture Series with @elpaavo.bsky.social

After two years in Paris, we're thrilled to have Paavo back in LA, and enjoyed his history/analysis on French social housing. 🇫🇷🏗️ His lecture is linked below

youtu.be/t2Yp8oPIAZw
Professor Paavo Monkkonen teaching a class in a gold room in Paris. Credit: Paavo Monkkonen Paavo and family riding around the streets of Lyon during his sabbatical in France. Credit: Paavo Monkkonen
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
households in LA with more car space than house space
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
welcome to LA! Hanging on by some painters tape
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
I do agree w that Monkkonen guy, feels like he‘s got beef with American urban planning

luskin.ucla.edu/sending-a-po...
Sending a Pointed Message Through Real Estate
“Hostile architecture is very American,” UCLA Luskin’s Paavo Monkkonen says of the phenomenon of using “spite houses” to settle scores.
luskin.ucla.edu
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen
elenoam.bsky.social
Mexico City has a participatory budget. Usually, neighbors vote for pavement and street lighting with super low turnouts.
This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Moving back to LA I sought out a walkable neighborhood. Last night two people walking on the side were killed a block from my apartment. Should I still walk here?

www.latimes.com/california/s...
Wrong-way motorist who fled on foot sought in fatal hit-and-run in Santa Monica
Santa Monica police are searching for a hit-run driver who plowed onto a busy Wilshire Boulevard sidewalk Friday night, killing two pedestrians and injuring two others.
www.latimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
do you have a guesstimate of how many total units of rezoned capacity SB79 will unlock? @idothethinking.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
a benevolent developer should make sure the first SB79 project in a single family neighborhood is a pretty building… prettier than ai can generate of course
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by Paavo Monkkonen
teroterotero.bsky.social
Ice breaker specialist Mikko Suominen (!!) warns about the crucial importance of continuing intense ice breaker R&D efforts to maintain Finland’s leadership in ice breaker technology.

www.is.fi/taloussanoma...
Asiantuntijalta varoitus Suomen jättidiilistä
Meritekniikan asiantuntija muistuttaa jatkuvan tutkimuksen tärkeydestä.
www.is.fi
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
elpaavo.bsky.social
Did someone say social housing? If you're in LA, I'll be talking about my research on French social housing on Oct 29th. I'll present early results from a project with Florence Goffette-Nagot & Romain Durand on why some landlords build so much more than others...

www.lewis.ucla.edu/event/learni...
Learning From Social Housing Production in France - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
www.lewis.ucla.edu
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM