Sustaining Place

Tidbits and Events, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character provides a catalog of techniques that emphasize “bottom up,” resident-based input. Such input includes local history, building forms, natural and…

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…

Place Parts, Episode 15: River, City, and Town

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character begins with the notion that communities reflect the fusion of everyday life with the various forces and environments common…

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…

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…

Place Parts, Episode 11: Book Launch Summit, with Tigran Haas

Today, we celebrate Book Launch Day for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character. This book focuses on the culture and character of one city compared…