Media + Speaking
Threading together the stories of cities through capital, culture, and communication.
Speaking and writing about how the systems of cities operate through social, cultural, and economic lenses to broadcast a sense of a place's history, and its future.
Topics include land value taxation, equity crowdfunding and creative forms of community capital, civic narrative and brand strategy, culture as economic production, the use of sound as civic identity, and uncovering Jewish histories embedded in cityscapes.
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Upcoming
Tax & The City: A Big Tent Urbanist Event
Host — iO Theater, Chicago Thursday, April 30, 2026
With John Norquist, Daryl Fairweather (Chief Economist, Redfin), and others. Presented by the Progress & Poverty Institute, Strong Towns Chicago, Congress for the New Urbanism, and partners.
Select Past Engagements: Chicago Architecture Center, Demo Demo Day @ mHub, CNU, Columbia University GSAPP, World Association of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA), University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Planetizen Courses
Select Video
►Kresge Foundation: People & Places | Now & Then
►“Behind the Headlines: Memphis Medical District Collaborative” (PBS)
►“On the Park Bench: Design and Development of Mixed-Use Health Districts” (CNU)
►Talking Real Estate Equity Crowdfunding (Gower Crowd)
Podcast & Radio
The Other Side - WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis (2021-2024) - A sonic travelogue through time, space, and place — spiritual jazz, psychedelic workouts, and found sounds from other sides of the world.
Drowned in History — OAM Network (2020–2021) Finding hidden histories embedded in the cityscape of Memphis, TN.
A Lot You Got to Holler — Newcity Chicago (2015–2017) 15 episodes on Chicago architecture, design, and urbanism.