Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 3, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…
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Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 2, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…
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Welcome to Place Parts, Episode 1, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles…
View More Place Parts, Episode 1: A Sustaining Place CompanionSustaining Community in Pandemica
Let’s talk about the hyperlocal places of Pandemica, where the successes of sustaining community may live or die. They are on my mind this New…
View More Sustaining Community in PandemicaPhoto of the Year: We Are Still Open
I took a photo yesterday that explains the year. It’s about adaptation, and, ultimately, survival. It also addresses another dilemma: depending on the context of…
View More Photo of the Year: We Are Still OpenAlmost Here for the Holidays: A Book to Sustain Places
Welcome back after my recent writing hiatus. For the last two months, I’ve been finalizing the proofs for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character with…
View More Almost Here for the Holidays: A Book to Sustain PlacesSustaining 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…
View More Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Deep Dive‘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…
View More ‘Place-Healing’ RevisitedWatering 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…
View More Watering Can as Symbol: Sustenance in a Sustainable PlaceForgetting 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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