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…
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First Comes ‘Place-Receiving’
Is there a predicate to “placemaking” where a place is analyzed and mastered? Is that process of immersion, which I so love to emphasize, part…
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Place Parts, Episode 14: Towards Hints of Resilience in Pandemica
When Sustaining Place began late last Spring, I wrote several pieces about the emergence phases from the first English lockdown. There are parallels today, as…
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Place Parts, Episode 12: Compatible, Affordable, and Misplaced?
Today, in Episode 12, we say goodbye to a busy book launch week with a simple proposition. We may (as is the current case in…
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Place Parts, Episode 10: Choreographing Place, with Sherry Dobbin
As we emerge from the pandemic, why center only on architectural compatibility or placemaking listicles? Why not admit the common adage, that the city–and its…
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Place Parts, Episode 8.5: Urbanistica Podcast
Today, in Episode 8.5, the featured video is not freestanding. Rather, it points to the well-subscribed Urbanistica Podcast, Episode 173, where I had the honor…
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Place Parts, Episode 6: Authenticity and Deliberative Communities
In this episode of Place Parts, we expand upon the role of “context keys” and authenticity” with Dr. Katherine Loflin, long-time consultant (the City Doctor),…
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Place Parts, Episode 5: A Place-LEARNing Primer
Today, in Place Parts, Episode 5, we follow up on Episode 3, about the importance of distinguishing the storybook from the real, something we also…
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Place Parts, Episode 3: The Storybook and the Real
Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 3, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…
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Place Parts, Episode 2: Place, Time, and Ideas
Welcome back to Place Parts, Episode 2, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character:…
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