Remember, the second meaning of “pandemic” is “universal.”
Tag Archives: Urban Views
A phrase used on BBC News at 2:00 today is my newly adopted mantra: “A Time of Excitement and Anxiety.” I’ve adopted it as a fair summary of the balance between public health and the economy. It’s also an example of where I’ve been stuck in my head for over […]
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 Church Street in Twickenham (retitled Equity Street in Pandemica for just a moment). The setting on display may be symbolic of a return to the […]
Ten years ago, I wrote a short, inspirational piece about hill towns. Yesterday, as I regarded the still-noticeable configuration of Richmond upon Thames–rising up to the spire of St Matthias Church–the “hill town nuance” once again reminded me of past urban forms that responded to the particular forces influencing human […]
In England, a simple urban view is a regular contrast to the views that I saw while growing up. The latter showed a built environment no older than I am now. Here, there is comfort in contrast, because, as I have been writing over the past month, I can see […]
In mid-May, I began Sustaining Place with an explanation of why and how to document emergence from lockdown in May and June. From a London perspective, I have been loyal to that task over the last month, and alluded to the uneven impacts of the pandemic across the world. Even […]
