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The Recalibration Paradox: ‘Nevermore’?

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…” Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven,” 1845 Here, during London’s lockdown, we’ve seen many ravens.…

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On LEARNing the City

In the latest issue of The Journal of Public Space, I had the fortunate opportunity to summarize Fulbright work in Australia almost two years ago…

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Simple Pandemic Navigation: Now, With Ideas From Then

In March 2010, when urbanist bloggers were few and twitter was in its infancy, I wandered my then-neighborhood in Seattle and wrote about some easy…

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Hiding in Plain Sight: More Emergence Observations

As quarantines relax, many urban residents show behavior that belongs to a stage of reopening not yet formally announced by government. In short, flouters adopt…

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The Juxtapositions of Emergent Urban Life

In my initial post last week, I suggested five operational themes available for any photographer interested in documenting emergence from urban life in quarantine. The…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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