Today’s Substack post continues the theme of framing in understanding places: Sometimes, the dust motes in the late afternoon sun invite exploration of more expansive landscapes and varied scales of view. I realize that north of Santa Fe, one need not drive south. It is well within our reach to […]
For many years, I’ve stressed the importance of the urbanism of experience, finding layered examples that show how people relate to the built and sociocultural communities around them. This exercise is not merely academic, but is also useful as a supplement to today’s urbanist dialogue and placemaking efforts. In Novenber, […]
After months inside, the outside certainly beckons, an invitation to explore from an old and treasured friend. Where better than where the Romans walked, across a West Berkshire field? In Speen, the “mother of Newbury,” post-Roman history was lost and re-emerged in Saxon times, and, later, in the Domesday Book. […]
Before Pandemica, the universal city that I introduced here a few days ago, there was the Roman military camp, the castrum, and its constituent crossroads (the decumanus and the cardo). In my original blog, myurbanist, I wrote about the precedential role of the castrum, and how, especially in Europe, the contextual […]
