Sustaining Place

Place Parts, Episode 1: A Sustaining Place Companion

Welcome to Place Parts, Episode 1, a short video feature in anticipation of the release of my third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles…

Sustaining Community in Pandemica

Let’s talk about the hyperlocal places of Pandemica, where the successes of sustaining community may live or die. They are on my mind this New…

Almost Here for the Holidays: A Book to Sustain Places

Welcome back after my recent writing hiatus. For the last two months, I’ve been finalizing the proofs for Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character with…

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Deep Dive

My third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (with Tigran Haas), will be released by early 2021 and is available…

‘Place-Healing’ Revisited

Just for a moment, return with me to just a few months ago. Most everywhere, the need for urban retrofits and recalibration to avoid disease…

Revisiting the Urbanism of Experience

For many years, I’ve stressed the importance of the urbanism of experience, finding layered examples that show how people relate to the built and sociocultural…

Illuminated Pub

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…

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character–A Visual Sampler

The essays and photographs exhibited on this website are a serialized prequel to Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (Rowman and…

A Needed Primer on Urban Perspective

I keep writing about cities and towns and the need to fully understand urban perspective, and tell a tale below to explain why. I use…