During the Expanded Horizons trip to Toronto, I visited the Don Mills neighborhood. Don Mills was one of the first master planned communities in North America, making it a worthy destination...
On a two-masted sailboat, the yacht of our sponsors _______ and ________, we are traveling west under power from a marina in the Pendik district, thirty kilometers from the Bosphorus on the Anatolian coast of the Sea of Marmara.
Sometime in the last year, the Landscape Urbanism Bullshit Generator became a very popular website among my urbanistically-inclined friends. For the uninitiated, the website, at the press of a button, generates a three-word imperative...
Graffiti covered brick buildings aren’t usually teeming with native plants, wetlands, and wildlife, unless they are long abandoned artifacts of the past, decaying from neglect. Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, however, is a compelling example of how industrial and biological environments can coexist in ways other than abandonment...
Sitting on the bus approaching Toronto, I kept asking myself one question: how are there so many cranes? Seemingly every few city blocks had another construction site guarded by an imposing crane stretching hundreds of feet into the sky...
If you have spent much time in downtown Ann Arbor, you have probably come across Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair. If you haven't given in to your curiosity and gone inside to find out what in the world a robot themed store is doing in town, you probably don't realize what goes on behind the playful facade, robot pieces, and wind-up toys.
Shifting circumstances and the introduction of digital technologies have outrun traditional typological definitions of urban public spaces such as plazas, squares and parks. The digital age has elicited a new level of blindness and unconscious living within the city or, in Walter Benjamin’s ...
The traditional American city, which flourished from about 1870 to 1950, is often perceived as an ideal site of vibrant public space and democratic interactions, in sharp contrast to contemporary suburbia which is seen as emblematic of both exclusionary practices and excessive consumption...