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Willy Staley writes about all sorts of stuff. Contact me at my name exactly as it appears in the URL [at] gmail [dot] com

The Awl

How the Looming Specter of Viral Marketing Ruins Rap Songs about Consumer Goods (7/16/10)

Why We Shouldn’t Treat Rap as Poetry (4/20/11)

The McRib as Arbitrage (11/8/11)

The Classical

Why Longboards Suck (1/26/12)

Complex

The 50 Greatest Bay Area Rap Songs (1/27/11)

E-40 Breaks Down His 25 Most Essential Tracks (4/1/11)

The FADER

Interview: Roach Gigz (6/23/11)

Print:

New York Magazine

Vines by the Rhyme (2/12)

San Francisco Bay Guardian

Lil B: The Man Behind the Meme (9/7/10)

Next American City

Urban Nation: Putting the UD back in HUD (12/10)

XXL

City of Dope (12/11)

Online:

Next American City

Little to Celebrate (12/27/10)

Tea Partiers See a Global Conspiracy in Local Planning Efforts (12/22/10)

Chicago: Cabrini-Green and the Bean (12/13/10)

Detroit: Palladium Boots and the Campus Martius (12/6/10)

Detroit: Brewster-Douglass and the Urban Swamp (12/2/10)

Federal Flip-Flop on Flippers in Cleveland (11/23/10)

Tearing Down Idora (11/16/10)

The Braddock Story (11/8/10)

Buffalo’s Clean Energy Future (11/2/10)

The Administration’s Infrastructure Problem (10/13/10)

Has David Brooks Never Seen Chinatown? (10/4/10)

Rise in Poverty Hits Sun Belt Hard (9/23/10)

How Income Inequality Helps Explain Contemporary Urban America (9/15/10)

Urban Nation Abroad: Bogota! (8/31/10)

Distracted Driving: Our Generation’s Road Rage? (8/17/10)

Libertarian Road Trip 2010! (8/11/10)

Can the Dep’t of Transportation Combat Obesity? (7/22/10)

Are We Becoming One Big Phoenix? (7/16/10)

Stadium Status: Federal Subsidy for Private Development (6/15/10)

The Census and Gentrification (5/23/10)

Richard Florida’s Monorail (1/8/10)

Also, I Edit Copy:

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

Europe’s Parking U-Turn: From Accommodation to Regulation (Jan, 2011)

Advancing World Class BRT in the US (Jan, 2011)

Sustainable Transport Magazine, Issue 22 (Oct 2010)