What’s Wrong with Detroit’s Proposed Airbnb Regulation
There are issues with how the implementation of Airbnb has evolved. Those issues should be addressed. But the regulation, as proposed, achieves little of that. In fact, what it mostly achieves is robbing those who arguably are the best examples…
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The Elephant in the CNU (Art 2)
And so, I was recently privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But…
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The Elephant in the CNU (Art 1)
Recently, I was privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But there are…
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In Transformation, It’s All Signal
In some media I’ve consumed recently, a woman speaker made a casual side remark that men act to act, and women act in context. I don’t know if those two categories are gendered, but I do recognize them. I have…
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Engage the Terrain
In my final semester of a dual graduate degree, I am engaged in two planning activities which are not quite real projects, but also not completely thought-exercises. They are also not quite professional practice, nor completely academic. These categories matter…
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Urbanist Series – Blood and Soil
One of the advantages in looking at community organizing and development through the field of social work is that it consistently invites you to dilate the lens from micro to macro. I am always intrigued, for example, by how communities…
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