By You can do this thing called life and you can do it in whatever city you need to as a young black professional. Why and how? I am. You may remember I asked this question of myself and of my home state back in 2014. What does one need to
Questions to Ask (and Traps to Avoid) When Considering a Career in Placemaking
Have you ever wondered how a person becomes involved in the world of placemaking and development as a career? Is it just people buying up properties to manage and flip? Is it just people being city planners, working in their city’s zoning or long-range planning department? Could I be part
Yes, I Borrowed Some Style, Urbanism and Career Cues from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mary Tyler Moore died last week, making her probably one of the first Ugg 2017 things not related to our current government malaise. And to be honest, having this excuse to tap into a major part of her legacy, her self-titled 1970s series she owned, produced and starred in, was
Why I Love IKEA
The answer’s simple— it lets me feel like I’m worthy of having a wonderfully designed home, no matter what that home is. However, there’s a long answer to this and I discovered it on my recent trip to the College Park, MD IKEA. I’ve also talked about it in my book.
Building on Theories and Practice of Black Urbanism in Our New World
I have always owed a great debt to the work of Sara Zewde, especially the usage of the term black urbanist and talking about black urbanism. Zewde is currently a principal at Asakura Robinson a designer at the Seattle-based firm GGN and in 2010, published her MIT graduate thesis, Theory, place, and
