PANDEMIC INSIGHTS: A pilot for an urban resilience research project
PANDEMIC INSIGHTS: A pilot for an urban resilience research project There are lockdown charts and lists online, but I learn often by writing things down, so thisContinue Reading
Pandemic Insights: Meal Pick Up & Delivery
March 27, 2020. I was living with my family in a city in central Sweden. About 9 days prior, I had just begun a part-time remote jobContinue Reading
Pandemic Insights: Mason in Germantown
PANDEMIC INSIGHT INTERVIEW Focus: Mason, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA This past Friday, I conducted my 12th pilot ‘Pandemic Insights’ Interview for a pilot series of interviews for whatContinue Reading
My City / Moje Miasto Activities: Newspaper Collaging
MY CITY / MOJE MIASTO ACTIVITIES~Newspaper collaging~ As part of an ongoing ‘My City’ learning module that I am developing and using this month at my jobContinue Reading
Campus + Winter Town Walkability
I don’t recall where I first heard it, but it’s a basic truth that rings true that for many US American youth, the college campus is theContinue Reading
Car-dependence & 15-minute City
The photo below is from October 2015, arriving back home after a road trip, Mama + Son Adventure to Mohonk Mountain House. I love a good roadContinue Reading
Piloting ‘Pandemic Insights’
It was April 2, 2020. Approximately half of the world’s population was in some form of lockdown now, and many more were experiencing various types of restrictionsContinue Reading
Memories, Mileus, Motivations
One of the books I’m currently reading is ‘Geography and the Human Spirit’ by the late Anne Buttimer. I’m really valuing the interdisciplinary approach she takes toContinue Reading
A street that wanted to be pedestrian: First urban impressions from Warsaw.
By Savannah Siekierski Savannah is currently doing her Master’s level internship at Pedestrian Space. As part of her internship with us, she is crafting ‘notes from theContinue Reading
From 15-minute city to 5-minute neighborhood realities
I wrote the below in Örebro on May 27, 2020. I have been interested in issues of walkability for decades now but haven’t consistently lived in walkableContinue Reading