Coby ✓
@Cobylefko · Brooklyn, NY · joined 12 Sep 2018
Working on creating better, more beautiful places to live in. Developer, Writer, Urbanist, Professor, Optimist. Check out my writing below!
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@Cobylefko Hoping to eliminate minimum set backs and lot sizes as small as can be in Norman over the next few years
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This added more than $1.5 billion in taxable value to the city, while making the city more walkable, affordable, and higher quality.
Every city in America should copy what Houston did.
https://t.co/lb2KEiZF48
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The findings come from Wegmann, Baqai, & Conrad who studied the redevelopment of 1,392 SFH lots into 5,359 townhouses between 2007 & 2020
Though lots were reduced by 68%, the new homes were more than 1,000 square feet larger. The most amazing part is they were $200k cheaper! htt
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Pretty remarkable recent study which anyone interested in housing should take note of:
Houston reduced its minimum lot sizes to 1,400 sf and the resulting redevelopments produced far higher quality homes, that were dramatically more affordable, than the ones they replaced https:
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Traditional architecture is far more popular than bold, experimental forms.
As the only art that people can’t opt out of, far more focus should then be put on designing popular styles, it’s a matter of profound public importance!
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Bike ride home (happily) overtaken by hundreds of rollerbladers https://t.co/iNGa3ihd8b
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Perfect example of how to cheaply improve any dead building frontage: https://t.co/18VhRrT5fL
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I’ve always thought Hoboken felt like a mix of Brooklyn and Philly, but this morning, it’s looking very San Francisco https://t.co/pf9tbXM78p
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@Cobylefko Canadian dollar got me in a holding pattern. https://t.co/YclgFmDXiG
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I should also note that I'm planning on visiting some cities to talk about the book over the next few weeks and months.
If you'd like me to come talk with you about how to make your neighborhood or town a little better, send me a DM and I'd love to make it happen! https://t.co/
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And for those interested in reading it now, here's the first chapter!
https://t.co/2BqILRgeJT https://t.co/mEiZRGRGpK
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It's a hopeful work about our ability to create places today that are as good as have ever existed. Our best days are not behind us. All it takes is a little bit of Optimism to get started!
Check out the link on Amazon below!!
https://t.co/janlM4lIBC
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Very exciting news to share!! My new (and first!) book, Building Optimism, is out now!
The book is an exploration of why our cities and towns look the way they do, and how to make them more beautiful, walkable, healthy, genial, affordable, dynamic and generally more desirable. h
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Against accounts of the same size
8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views3 766this account927median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.92%this account3.40%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.57%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 766 | 927 | 4.06× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.92% | 3.40% | 1.74× |
| Engagement rate | 1.57% | 1.54% | 1.02× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
143.1K19 Nov
78K
4.4K
3K
93
6.3K7 Sep
3.5K9 Sep
4.6K10 Sep
3.6K11 Sep
51.3K17 Sep
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1.3K18 Sep
Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.75%19 Nov
0.21%
0.57%
0.81%
2.15%
2.08%7 Sep
1.59%9 Sep
0.73%10 Sep
1.55%11 Sep
1.79%17 Sep
1.46%
2.29%
1.53%18 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.
What the audience does
Likes72.3%2 288 in total
Reposts6.1%192 in total
Replies3.7%117 in total
Quotes0.5%17 in total
Bookmarks17.4%552 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 12 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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