Sustaining Place

Place Parts, Episode 18: Landscape Ghosts, with Shannon Nichol

How do we unearth and rediscover landscapes which we can no longer see? Personal and collective memories in defining a place’s culture and character have…

Place Parts, Episode 16: Place Exists, Just Listen

Who says that place is all about engineered or built environments? It isn’t, a point I emphasize many times in Sustaining a City’s Culture and…

Place Parts, Episode 15: River, City, and Town

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character begins with the notion that communities reflect the fusion of everyday life with the various forces and environments common…

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…

Focal Point: People, Place, and Profit

I suggest a patient and mindful perception about what we sense, particularly for those of us fortunate enough to see. Which is the focal point…

New Friends Abound

Back to Two Rivers in Transcendental Times

Soon, after almost three years, we’ll be less Thames-side on a daily basis, replacing its ever-evolving majesty with the scaled-down realities of the Rivers Lambourn…

His Place at Dusk

Across the Thames

Sampling the Richmond Park Experience

Richmond Park is to many the most significant urban natural space in the United Kingdom. Yet, London visitors from overseas (when visits are possible) make…