Sustaining Place

Place Parts, Episode 3: The Storybook and the Real

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:…

Place Parts, Episode 2: Place, Time, and Ideas

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:…

Place Parts, Episode 1: A Sustaining Place Companion

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…

Sustaining 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…

Photo 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…

Almost 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…

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…

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…