Borrowed time
They used to say we’re living on borrowed time but even when young I wondered who loaned it to us? In 1948 one grandpa…
Read More1.6 Transportation
Pedestrian scale
Pedestrian scale can be a precise science for those involved in planning and building. But it doesn’t have to be. Almost anyone can easily…
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New Yorkers, individually, drive, pollute, consume, and throw away much less than do the average residents of the surrounding suburbs, exurbs, small towns, and…
Read MorePrice of parking
Initially, the developer pays for the required parking, but soon the tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the price of…
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An intimate view
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a blog the author kept while walking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, accompanied by…
Read MoreResurrection people
“Thy kingdom come, on earth as in heaven.” That remains one of the most powerful and revolutionary sentences we can ever say. As I…
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Sanctuary at Midland Station
Midland Station in Toronto, Ontario (2009) I lived in residence when I was in graduate school, which came with a number of blessings. Easily…
Read MoreTo and fro
In today’s subdivisions the streets have no other official function except to funnel the cars to and fro. One of the problems with cars…
Read MoreJustifying the destruction
In an era when suburbs had just begun to grow, DiMento* says, “local politicians saw urban freeways as a way of bringing suburban commuters…
Read MorePropellers
We never traveled over bridges. It was too dark under their skin. The monsters wanted to attack. Instead, we floated in airplanes, propellers spinning…
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