Sustaining Place

Observing Pandemic Patterns

If anyone doubted how concerns for public safety and associated protective rules guide human behavior, take a look at the seating configurations depicted above. In…

A Pandemic Escape to a West Berkshire Field

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…

If You are Still Staying Home, I Understand

I suppose that walking to church in 1285, the village resident had risks to consider when going outside versus staying home. After yesterday, I have…

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…

A Deeper Dive on Structuring Post-COVID Cities

There is no shortage of punditry about the pandemic and its impact on cities, their density, form, and structure. The last several months have demonstrated…

Adaptation and the Pub Lives On

Across the Air Bridge: How to See Cities in Emergence

In European countries emerging from lockdown, life in quarantine has mostly passed. We have moved to lives in emergence, a daily diary of risk assessment,…

July 4: A Day of Pints and Haircuts

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…

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…

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…