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…
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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…
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Hilltowns as Icons Anew
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…
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This Too Shall Pass
In Urbanism Without Effort, I wrote that storefronts have always made the city. One reason is the messages they communicate, which is why blank walls…
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There’s Still a Place for a Metaphor
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…
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Exploring the Sense-Based City of Change
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…
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Of Monuments, Messages, and Change
Over the past several years, I have often posted a photograph and used it as a prompt for reflection. In Seeing the Better City, I…
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Today in the City, Survival Means Transition
Pandemic or not, we tend to talk only about what we see, even though we instinctively know that things are not always what they seem.…
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