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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