About/CV
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
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
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)
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)