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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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