Street Stack
Exploring observations and ideas from the left-field of urban planning and urban design. Written for a broad audience.
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Announcing The Fifth Avenue Tour (opens the original)
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Brain-rot Commute (opens the original)
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Knitting at the Bank (opens the original)
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A lot of photos in this one, so the email will be cut off. Read on the website or in the app for the best experience.The Next Street Stack Walk is THIS MONTH: Announcement coming next week.<img alt="" class="sizin
Street Cleaning Vol 13: Do Nothing Somewhere (opens the original)
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Street Cleaning is the monthly feature of quick takes, links, and nonsense. Have something interesting you think I should share? Send it my way!Seoul: More humid than the Devil’s gym sock. London: brown and dry, might as well be Bakersfield. New York: non-stop schvitz. All the cities in my life are at the brain-fogged end of the hottest summer of all time. I am like a fat sponge waiting to be squeezed out by Fall. In this state, the urge to write about serious urban planning is low. Also, no one
Make a Picture, Make a City (opens the original)
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The next Street Stack walking tour will be in NYC this September. Details to come, but space will be more limited this time, and paid subscribers will get priority. It’s never too late to upgrade and help fund the large amount of time and effort I put into Street Stack.When I was in grad school, I took a rudimentary class on visualizations. Below is an image I created for the unit meant to familiarize us with the Adobe Suite. I imagined a market made up of shade parasols that look like mushrooms
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