Ode to Crossing the Williamsburg Bridge at Night
The night I met the first girl I ever loved, I got arrested trying to cross the Williamsburg Bridge. It was Halloween; there had been a...
JJ Walker
Aug 13, 2017
The Hubris of Progress
March on! Move forward! Harder, better, faster, stronger! Crack the whip, double-time! We have deadlines to meet, there’s money to be...
Z Nalywayko
Aug 10, 2017
COUNTERPOINT: People are Cities
Last week, my esteemed colleague Z laid out the argument that cities are people. Read it here. Cities are people; so too is a city, in...
Hank Felsman
Jul 31, 2017
Cities Are People
Cities are people. You disagree? Good. Cities are people. Just people. Cities are not metaphorically people, with roads as arteries and...
Z Nalywayko
Jul 26, 2017
Philly: Please Put William Penn Statues On All Buildings Taller than City Hall
When Philadelphia City Hall was built in 1901, it was the tallest building in the world, aside from the Washington Monument or Eiffel...
Hank Felsman
Jul 18, 2017
Existential Planning
Existentialism, the philosophy that life is inherently meaningless and as such only gains value through the efforts of humans to define...
Z Nalywayko
Jul 13, 2017
Failing to Make Sense of an Inexplicably Convoluted, Nonsensical CNN Headline
The many problems of CNN can be summed up in the image above, but not the obvious problems that first come to mind when the most...
Hank Felsman
Jul 11, 2017