From 15-minute city to 5-minute neighborhood realities
2025-10-01
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
Pandemic Insights: Spatial Equity
2025-07-22
The photos below are of two of the outdoor gyms closest to our home when I lived in the central Swedish city of Örebro. Both were withinContinue Reading
Special Issue: Dimensions of the 15-minute City
2025-07-20
📣 Call for Papers: Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability Special Issue on ‘Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions: The 15-Minute City’ I’m servingContinue Reading
Published: Researcher reflections from an urban lab
2025-06-26
My first dissertation-related paper is published! My paper ‘Researcher reflections from an urban lab: best practices and barriers of walkable urbanism via a 15-minute neighbourhood lens inContinue Reading
Neighborhood Reflections
2025-06-02
Neighborhood. A place. A local space. A feeling. A community. This is, in brief, how I perceive what a neighborhood is, or can be. How do youContinue Reading
Temporal Rhythms & Neighborhood Life
2025-05-23
I recently finished the book ‘The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time & Our Planet’ by Carlos Moreno. As a person who spent many yearsContinue Reading
Popping Out To The Bakery
2025-05-06
There are approximately 4 bakeries within an average of a 2-minute walk from my apartment building. This morning, as everyone in my family bustled to prepare for theContinue Reading
What is an ordinary, well-planned city to you?
2025-04-17
What do you consider an ‘ordinary’, well-planned city? I’m still teasing out my own thoughts on this, but perceive a well-planned and ‘ordinary’ city as one withContinue Reading
Call for Submissions: Special Issue ‘Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions of the 15-Minute City’
2025-04-17
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability for Special Issue ‘Spatial, Environmental & Social Dimensions of the 15-Minute City’Continue Reading
A Philly Memory on Spatial Equity & Proximity to Basic needs
2025-04-10
I was aware of issues of food inequity from a young age but it wasn’t until living in Philadelphia in 2008 that I could connect dots onContinue Reading