Sustaining Place

Now Playing: ‘Density with Distance,’ the Remake

As Greater London moves to solve the conundrum of a return to work with reduced public transport capacity, the acceleration of reclaimed space for pedestrians…

The Ironic Inequities of a Place Called Zoom

Let’s face it. Although lacking the physical realities of human proximity, Zoom interactions approximate those that otherwise occur in public streets and squares. Scholars of…

New Normal? Not Yet…

My efforts to document city change over the past several years can suggest this pandemic season does not look much different than what came before.…

Photographing Urban Life in Emergence, and Why

Since March, photographs have played a major role in illustrating the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: life in quarantine. Particularly in public places, emptiness…