Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping.“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”Counting the cars on the New Jersey…
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About the Gathering Spaces of Malls in Pandemica
I’m not sure whether malls are places where viruses thrive, but they seem like they could be the cruise ships of retail for all of…
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From Ancient Rome to Pandemica Alfresco
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…
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Guess What? We Will Always Write About Cities
For many, the pandemic has been a catalyst to compare the urban life that was to what it now seems to be. Yet, that is…
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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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Amid Protest: Simple Community, on Display
People blend with their surroundings in cities. Today, in our dual pandemic world of disease and social justice (including a new tragedy in Atlanta), we…
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Place-Healing and the Role of Adaptation
How to manage disruptive daily news that impacts our sense of well-being, highlights social disparity, or recalls the fragile balance between health and economy? As…
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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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