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…
View More Place Parts, Episode 1: A Sustaining Place CompanionSustaining 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…
View More Sustaining Community in PandemicaAlmost 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…
View More Almost Here for the Holidays: A Book to Sustain PlacesSustaining 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…
View More Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Deep Dive‘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…
View More ‘Place-Healing’ RevisitedRevisiting 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…
View More Revisiting the Urbanism of ExperienceObserving 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…
View More Observing Pandemic PatternsSustaining 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…
View More Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character–A Visual SamplerA 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…
View More A Needed Primer on Urban Perspective