Sustaining Place

‘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…

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…

Focal Point: People, Place, and Profit

I suggest a patient and mindful perception about what we sense, particularly for those of us fortunate enough to see. Which is the focal point…

A Book Cover and Pride of Place

Throughout the past few months, it has been harder than ever to understand ideas and experiences of place, and the forces that contribute to their…

Modified Dystopia, I Salute You

With apologies to Julius Caesar, all pandemic rail transport behavior is divided into three parts.

Back to Two Rivers in Transcendental Times

Soon, after almost three years, we’ll be less Thames-side on a daily basis, replacing its ever-evolving majesty with the scaled-down realities of the Rivers Lambourn…

Observing Pandemic Patterns

If anyone doubted how concerns for public safety and associated protective rules guide human behavior, take a look at the seating configurations depicted above. In…

Sampling the Richmond Park Experience

Richmond Park is to many the most significant urban natural space in the United Kingdom. Yet, London visitors from overseas (when visits are possible) make…