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hey Kid...
This Kid lives in a small Urban Village, one of thousands inside Chicagoland, with millions of other people. Set in the near future, the...


Change, Civility, Why We Travel
@Medium Change, especially grand in scope, happens in strange ways and can be similar to biological engineering: operational mechanisms...

The illusion of nature and architecture for civilized humans
In our time of Virus pandemonium, Camile Paglia’s old book Sexual Personae has found its way back to my reading. Another virus, another...


Rebuilding Large Cities with Bold Transportation
where did the idea for an infiniteTransit Flyway come from? from Medium Most people want to think America’s largest cities are doing...


How City Planners Became So Timid
The field used to be visionary. Now it’s just dull. How to explain this timidity?
#KidCities #infiniteTransit


the next 20
It’s a long journey. Voyage well! Like many adventures, Animate began by setting out in a general direction –– innovation for good in...


credible opinions
Opinions about art by Crate&Barrel... Opinions, like the air we breathe, are everywhere. Lema Khorshig and I found ourselves discussing...


BIG data, urban design, architecture
Patterns otherwise invisible are made possible by ultra wide angle cameras. It's even more impressive when one watches the video (this...


surfing with Alessandro Baricco: an essay on the mutation of culture
Very strange... seeing a new book by Alessandro Baricco, The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture at the checkout counter at...


living design history
A client asked us why we would propose to keep a mediocre old building on a new project. After all, we are proposing a much larger...
blogging ideas along the way
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