Local and sacred

Local and sacred

by | Aug 12, 2016 | People & Places

In late 2004 I received a Journalism Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund. Due to work responsibilities, however, I couldn’t leave until a couple years later. In autumn ’06 I traversed six European countries in search of local food, visiting farm...
The Polish pâtisserie

The Polish pâtisserie

by | May 28, 2016 | People & Places

I met Dobra Bielinski in a history colloquium at UIC and saw she is a person of many talents. After graduate history studies she opened a bakery. She is proprietress of my now favorite confectionery Delightful Pastries on W. Lawrence Ave. We had lunch one day and she...
A Planner’s work in the Garden City of the Emirates

A Planner’s work in the Garden City of the Emirates

by | Apr 18, 2016 | Planning

This article appeared in the APA International Division’s newsletter (2016 pre-conference issue), called A Planner’s work… It contains a reference to Steve’s white paper, Impending revolution in planning practice It’s always interesting to...
Sâo Paulo

Sâo Paulo

by | Jan 2, 2016 | Cities

I traveled several times to Brazil during the early 2000s and made good friends in Sâo Paulo. I became fascinated with Brazil’s great industrial city, so immense, so dense, so vast and spread out like a huge human hive. I had never seen such a thing. In 2004...
Vienna

Vienna

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Cities

After visiting Milan, I went to see friend Dave Stein in Vienna and fell in love with the old imperial city. Dave, a grad school colleague now living there, knows the city and its transportation system very well. We wrote Vienna Turns Again to the East for Urban Land...