Rhythm in motion

Rhythm in motion

by | Jan 1, 2016 | People & Places

One night I went to a party in an artist’s apartment in Pilsen. It was a little basement apartment crowded with people and the guy’s paintings. A dancer came from behind curtains. Stepping onto a little carpet, she went into a long, slow, strange, gyrating...
What I learned at Terra Madre

What I learned at Terra Madre

by | Jan 1, 2016 | People & Places

I received a journalism fellowship in ’04 to traverse Europe’s farm markets, but I couldn’t break away til the autumn of ’06. I saw cows, goats and pigs in five countries and talked to farmers who let boar eat acorns in the forest. I learned...
Suburbia Revisited

Suburbia Revisited

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Planning

Planners are now devoted to building up little cities around rail stations, and if that can be done in metro Dallas it can be done anywhere. The movement toward station density was just getting started when I wrote Suburbia Revisited.
Milan

Milan

by | Dec 31, 2015 | Cities

I visited Milan in early 2002 to see the city’s many historic layers and its ongoing transformation. With help from friend and interpreter Chiara Pelizzoni, we conducted interviews with planners, developers, and academics to learn about the city’s place in...
Fazenda Fortaleza

Fazenda Fortaleza

by | Dec 31, 2015 | People & Places

I visited the estate several times while working in Sâo Paulo during autumn ’04 (spring in Brazil). It’s a big, old coffee estate that Marcos Croce was striving to return to old organic ways of cultivating coffee. And even to improve the forest and the...