About me
Jonathan Tarleton is a writer and urban planner. He is the author of Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (a New Yorker Best Book of 2025) and is at work on his second book, Little Boxes Everywhere, for One Signal. He previously served as the chief researcher on Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and as the editor in chief of the online magazine Urban Omnibus. His essays have recently appeared in n+1, Orion, LitHub, Jacobin, Hell Gate, the New York Review of Architecture, and beyond.