@Medium Change, especially grand in scope, happens in strange ways and can be similar to biological engineering: operational mechanisms transform physical space. Transportation becomes a valuable tool to create spaces where people interact in more collective ways, minimizing the isolation of auto-centric lifestyles. Pauseway Changing human activity creates a new kind of civility. It is not science fiction. Changes that increase repetitive interactions between strangers increa

In our time of Virus pandemonium, Camile Paglia’s old book Sexual Personae has found its way back to my reading. Another virus, another naturally nasty part of our world. Ever since my education at Mies van der Rohe’s architecture school, I have been looking for a sense of nature that matches the 21st-century world. The landscape architecture of the 20th century frequently pursued the idealization of nature. Furthermore, it persists in the marketing mantra of “sustainable-gre