Sustaining Place

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…

Across the Air Bridge: How to See Cities in Emergence

In European countries emerging from lockdown, life in quarantine has mostly passed. We have moved to lives in emergence, a daily diary of risk assessment,…

Have a Think: “A Time of Excitement and Anxiety“

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…

From Ancient Rome to Pandemica Alfresco

Before Pandemica, the universal city that I introduced here a few days ago, there was the Roman military camp, the castrum, and its constituent crossroads…