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…
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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…
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Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character–A Visual Sampler
The essays and photographs exhibited on this website are a serialized prequel to Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (Rowman and…
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In Search of Context in ‘Alfresco Twickenham’
During the relative calm of July in the United Kingdom, when the COVID curve is flattened (for now), it is time to explore. I discussed…
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A Manifesto for Equity Street in Pandemica
We all live in the city of Pandemica. With apologies to Italo Calvino, it is time to reconsider a current “road closed” image of historic…
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Hilltowns as Icons Anew
Ten years ago, I wrote a short, inspirational piece about hill towns. Yesterday, as I regarded the still-noticeable configuration of Richmond upon Thames–rising up to…
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