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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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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