“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…” Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven,” 1845 Here, during London’s lockdown, we’ve seen many ravens.…
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On LEARNing the City
In the latest issue of The Journal of Public Space, I had the fortunate opportunity to summarize Fulbright work in Australia almost two years ago…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: More Emergence Observations
As quarantines relax, many urban residents show behavior that belongs to a stage of reopening not yet formally announced by government. In short, flouters adopt…
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The Juxtapositions of Emergent Urban Life
In my initial post last week, I suggested five operational themes available for any photographer interested in documenting emergence from urban life in quarantine. The…
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The Ironic Inequities of a Place Called Zoom
Let’s face it. Although lacking the physical realities of human proximity, Zoom interactions approximate those that otherwise occur in public streets and squares. Scholars of…
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Photographing Urban Life in Emergence, and Why
Since March, photographs have played a major role in illustrating the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: life in quarantine. Particularly in public places, emptiness…
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