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Some recent place-making posts

Lockdown Piazza del Popolo

Stepping Out of the Travel Business

May 29, 2022

Living out the pandemic in Rome has given me time to reflect and re-evaluate my weekly routine. Before automatically reintroducing patterns from BC (before covid), I stopped to ask myself if I really missed them. When the answer was no, I made some changes.

beach chair on coast

Quick Hot Summer

August 22, 2021

I’ve left Rome for three destinations this summer, each time coming back with newfound appreciation and newfound frustration for my adopted home. A week in Abruzzo, leading a summer school…

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Urban Placemaking Case Studies

June 2, 2021

We encounter great projects more and more frequently in our real and virtual explorations and I’ve always wanted to file them away for future reference and to share with students…

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