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Adventures in neighborhood podcasting
This week I’ve been participating in MIT CoLab’s Storytelling for Planners course. I must admit that it’s felt since the first moment like it was where I’ve always belonged. As you know, I’m committed...
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Neighborday
This spring I did some thinking and writing for GOOD.is, as they launched their first new holiday, Neighborday. It was a day for celebrating neighbors, and neighboring, for getting to know where you...
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entropy + institutions = pop-up democracy
I’ve been really excited and pleased by how much attention and conversation my post on the entropic city has generated. Since then I’ve found a lot of interesting thinking that folks have been doing,...
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living in public.
Today I want to talk about something that I’ve been thinking about since I was in Rome last spring. It’s about the idea of “living in public.” This is an important concept, one’s that distinct from...
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2011 taught us to learn in public.
When I wrote this post back in October about living in public, I had no idea how apt it would be! In the following weeks, the #Occupy movement made living in public a national issue and a powerful...
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what turkeys can tell us (about social capital)
I’ve been wanting to write for a long time about the turkeys in my neighborhood. Turkeys? In Cambridge, you say? Yes. Here they are, in the front yard of a neighboring apartment building, the first...
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civic culture begins at dinnertime.
I want to tell you today about my favorite holiday. It’s Passover, and while I’m no longer a practicing Jew (in fact I consider myself a Humanist) I’ve found that having a Seder is still extremely...
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The Working Waterfront Festival’s 10th Annivesrary
Over the summer I interviewed some of the participants in New Bedford’s Working Waterfront Festival. I wanted to know what this festival, which was celebrating its 10th year, has meant to them. Here’s...
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The case for fourth places.
When I was two or three, my grandparents took me to a performance of Sleeping Beauty, a sprawling, three hour long, 19th century masterpiece, at the San Francisco Ballet (SFB). To the surprise of...
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What is the story of a place? Thoughts on field research.
A lecture I gave to the Qualitative Research for Urban Planners course at Harvard’s GSD. The talk was based on my Master’s thesis, which I have just now (finally) published online. * I came across...
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