Writings

Writings about architecture, urban planning, policy, baseball, and the systems of cities have appeared in ARCHITECT, Belt Magazine, CityLAB, ICON, Metropolis, Newcity, New Geography, The Hardball Times, among others.

Recent:

^{“Chicago’s Streets Make Confident Kids” - Newcity}
^{“Homefront: The Year That Housing Broke” - Newcity}
^{“How a Land-Value Tax Could Transform Memphis” - The Daily Memphian}
^{“Culture as Catalyst: A Pop-Up Blooms in Old Town” - Newcity}
^{“Unseen Structures: A Review of Germane Barnes’ ‘Columnar Disorder’” - Newcity}
^{“Letters Beyond Form: Chicago’s Typographic Voice, Present and Past” - Newcity}
^{“A Visionary at the Margins of Modernism: A Review of Edgar Miller at the DePaul Art Museum” - Newcity}

An incomplete archive:

(more coming, soon...)

^{“A Garden of Homes Grows in Reno” - ARCHITECT}
^{“The Rebirth of Memphis’ 100 N. Main” - ARCHITECT}
^{“TIMBER! Building Tall with Wood” - ARCHITECT}
^{“In Albany, The Cost of a ‘Modern’ Plaza” - ARCHITECT}
^{“Renewal’s Toll on Newburgh” - ARCHITECT}
^{“The Problem with Poughkeepsie” - ARCHITECT}
^{“A City of Juxtapositions” - ARCHITECT}
^{“Renewing Kingston for a Second Time” - ARCHITECT}
^{“A Rededication to Craft” - ARCHITECT}
^{“The Value of Environmental Care” - ARCHITECT}
^{“Population Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Standardizing the Size of the Great American City” - Belt Magazine}
^{“This Ain’t City Chicken: The Geography of Authenticity” - Belt Magazine}
^{“With Prentice Coming Down, Chicago Takes Giant Step Towards Global City Irrelevance” - Belt Magazine}
^{“A Rebrand Goes Wrong in a Gentrifying Chicago Neighborhood” - CityLab}
^{“Lifting a Small Town Through a Land Bank Arts Program” - CityLab}
^{‘Memphis is Doing Green Space Right Again” - CityLab}
^{“Say Hello to America’s Longest ‘Rails-to-Trails’ Bridge” - CityLab}
^{“How Chicago Turned an Industrial Waste Site Into a Nature Lovers' and Cyclists' Paradise” - CityLab}
^{“Pittsburgh, and the Magic of Failure” - Gapers Block}
^{“Should We Always Deride the Donut?” - The Hardball Times}
^{“Congress for the New Urbanism leads charge to jump-start economic activity with Live/Work/Walk Initiative” - Metropolitan Planning Council}
^{“Profile: Norman Kelley” - Metropolis}
^{“Making Home Possible” - Mic}
^{“Is It Time to Buy?” - Mic}
^{“What to Tell a Real Estate Agent” - Mic}
^{“How a 19th Century Butcher Shop Became a Home” - Mic}
^{"The Freedom Project: How Cities Like Chicago Will Preserve Freedom, Democratic Norms and Usher In a New Hanseatic League" - Newcity}
^{“The New, Improved Rust Belt” - New Geography}
^{“China’s Empty Trains and Other Unintended Consequences” - New Geography}
^{“Wasting Water” - City of Schaumburg, Sustainable Future}
^{“Will Rahm Emanuel Show America What BRT Can Do?” - Streetsblog}

Some press:

^{“Ben Schulman on the ‘Magic of Failure’" - Reihan Salam, The National Review}
^{“Are Smartphones Changing the Geography of Our Cities” - Jarrett Walker, Human Transit (re: “The Car as Smartphone: Effects on the Built Environment and Sociality”)}

^{And poetry too: Writings have appeared in Just Place, Platform Review, Sandstorm, and Wingless Dreamer.}

Writings

Recent:

An incomplete archive:

Some press:

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