This blog is about the ideas that we associate with and attribute to urban environments. They may be subtle, but archetypes are all around us and they play a big role in how we respond to and feel about places.

Have you ever had a really emotional connection to a place? Everyone has.

Momentos on Flickr.Often, it is the small, fleeting details that makes a place most memorable.

Momentos on Flickr.

Often, it is the small, fleeting details that makes a place most memorable.

Pasticcio on Flickr.I have always thought that a “placeholder” market built from shipping containers would be a great idea.  I had no idea, until recently, that one had actually been built.  Of course it is in Brooklyn.

Pasticcio on Flickr.

I have always thought that a “placeholder” market built from shipping containers would be a great idea. I had no idea, until recently, that one had actually been built. Of course it is in Brooklyn.

Soul

Soul

Heroism

Heroism

Playfulness.
If it takes a village to raise a child, what should that village look like?

Playfulness.

If it takes a village to raise a child, what should that village look like?

Mission District, San Francisco

Mission District, San Francisco

A diamond in the ruff.

A diamond in the ruff.

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.” -Daniel Burnham"

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“All the world is a stage”

“All the world is a stage”