Sustaining Place

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Deep Dive

My third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (with Tigran Haas), will be released by early 2021 and is available…

‘Place-Healing’ Revisited

Just for a moment, return with me to just a few months ago. Most everywhere, the need for urban retrofits and recalibration to avoid disease…

Watering Can as Symbol: Sustenance in a Sustainable Place

In these times, is it an outright elitist thing to run around with a Leica M-10P waxing poetic about how how to sustain the culture…

Not Quite the Oldest Profession

Forgetting to Remember

Back in the day, people complied with signage that facilitated social distancing. Increasingly, they forget to remember. Meanwhile, a random fact: today, the United Kingdom…

Revisiting the Urbanism of Experience

For many years, I’ve stressed the importance of the urbanism of experience, finding layered examples that show how people relate to the built and sociocultural…