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Essays on the deeper patterns shaping cities, culture, and civic life. Written for those who know there’s more at stake than policy and planning alone.
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The Cultural Autoimmune Disorder
At a dinner table, someone begins telling a story about a teacher...
The City Cannot Be All Work
On many Boise sidewalks, walking is allowed and staying feels faintly out...
The City That Helps You Remember
On any given morning, millions of adults slide small plastic nodes into...
The Sidewalk That Stopped Thinking
On the northern edge of Julia Davis Park, near the Discovery Center,...
From Place to Parcel: How Ownership Geometry Fractured Civic Life
The Surveyor’s Line On the Capitol Mall in Boise, a bronze statue...