Language and Cities

B’reishit bara Elohim. In the beginning of… [1] Language is everything. It informs the way we think, create, and order our world. When we ...

Imagine Paradise

Paradise is the place where you feel most free. For those who have little experience with paradise, it can seem eternally out of reach, in some ...

In Defense of Beauty and Joy

People talk about the beauty but rarely about the joy that comes from living within this dichotomy.

Freedom to Evolve

Conversation these days doesn’t often veer towards evolution, but it has been on my mind. We talk of freedom and struggle, hope and change, yet ...

Two Days at the Lake

After flying from San Francisco to Chennai then across India to Kochi, followed by an uneventful but cramped bus ride an hour or so down the ...

Preserving Our Future

Why do we have to keep talking about the past in the midst of creating a city for the future? Mostly because there are some things that our ...

Westside Mania

Fresh from a flurry of community planning meetings about the Westside, one can’t help but be exhausted and a little disturbed by the experience. ...

New Urbanism + Food

Over the last ten years, the American population has been fed a version of new urbanism