For M-Group’s M-Lab, I analyzed parcels for their development potential and utility for increasing housing density in an equitable manner.
Read MoreOur profession works in relation to land and to people, but that does not mean we have to relate to the current property regime outlined by Harris in this book.
Read MoreWhat is the point of commercial uses if it is actually extremely unpleasant to do commerce there?
Read MoreDespite a venture capital push for 15-minute grocery delivery, there are many reasons it doesn’t work in the United States.
Read MoreThinking about how ghost kitchens are linked to labor, circulation, and land use.
Read MoreLodewijk Pincoffs dealt in slaves, fled from his bankruptcy…and founded an American merchant empire.
Read MoreAs WeWork makes its bid to be the mid-market revitalizer, it is important to wonder what they are really selling — and to whom.
Read MoreWhat is now a high school in Izmir, Turkey, was once the center of an empire's imagination for the Mediterranean world.
Read MoreReviewing the research and planning I did for Freshwater Lab
Read MoreExcerpts from a visualizations course.
Read MoreGhosts are used by storytellers to connect people to the difficult histories with which they do not want to face.
Read MoreReviewing a Judith De Jong lecture that rekindles a primo Chicago bad idea
Read MoreNew transit systems in Istanbul led to the de-centralization of Taksim Square and a new emphasis on Yenikapı
Read MoreAs Kaya Genç writes about Istanbul's libraries, I wonder what lessons could be learned from them for places stateside.
Read MoreStrong Towns makes financial arguments for why cities like Flint or Lafayette need to suffer. They don't always take into account what makes a city, a city.
Read MoreA debriefing on a course workshop undertaken to look at environmental sustainability and economic development in a far south Chicago suburb.
Read MoreLooking briefly at how the Chicago Sanitary District subsidized the construction of – and home values in – the near suburbs during the 1930s.
Read MoreLooking at why so many corner apartment units are so obviously taking up the space of something that shouldn't be a corner apartment unit.
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