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Asher Kohn

  • Associate Planner, M-GROUP
Houston
As seen in: HuffPost, Slate, VICE, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Timeline, Roads and Kingdoms, ssireview.org, Failed Architecture, Los Altos Town Crier
Land use planning for people. Probably eating chickpeas right now.
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Homesick by Peter Apps: Book Review

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By Asher Kohn
| Stanford Social Innovation Review
Peter Apps’ first book was an award-winning investigation into the causes and consequences of the 2017 Grenfell Tower high-rise fire in London. His second book, Homesick, begins with the basic unit of the housing crisis: a bedsit (a studio apartment, maybe with a shared kitchen or toilet) in a cramped building, with “whitewashed walls, numbered doors with individual locks, fire-exit signs and emergency lighting.” There is mold.
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Housing Density for Whom? (SSIR)

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By Asher Kohn
| Stanford Social Innovation Review
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing Max Holleran 216 pages, Princeton University Press, 2022 Buy the book » Earlier this summer, New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a speech about the transformation he envisions for the city. “Going forward,” Adams said, “we are going to turn New York into a city of yes. Yes in my backyard. Yes on my block.
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How we can learn about race relations from Cuban baseball

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By Asher Kohn
| Timeline
Cuba integrated America’s pastime way before Jackie Robinson Illustration by Christopher Dang/Timeline.com By Asher Kohn Before he met Jackie Robinson, Dodgers exec Branch Rickey was looking for a black player to integrate baseball in America. The story goes that when Rickey’s scouts introduced him to the sweet-swinging shortstop Silvio Garcia, the Afro-Cuban athlete was asked what he’d do if a white man slapped him in the face.
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