Shippan
Hello Dear Readers, if there are any of you out there… I realize it’s been an extended break, but I’m happy to be back with a brief entry...
Z Nalywayko
Oct 23, 2018
Turn Your Head Sideways and Nature Will Troll You
In the photograph above, the brush in the foreground frames a view across a pond, with the brush in the distance reflected in the pond’s...
Hank Felsman
Sep 28, 2018
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
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