I know they are sites of capitalism, but when I go to the mall, I’m there to find things I need to make my own tools of system dismantlement and comforts through the storm. As we re-examine many of these spaces, they will thrive only if we see them as
By Kristen Jeffers
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Are There Really Too Many Planners in Certain Metro Areas?
Recently, I was made aware of and responded to this series of threads on Twitter, that among my colleagues in the D.C. area, there’s a concern over how many practitioners of place, especially planners, exist in the metro area and how many folks want to be planners by name, versus just
On The Constant State of Motion Through Imperfect Cities
There’s no perfect city. We also can’t expect people to fix cities and not bear the brunt of what it means to be the only person in a city who seems to have all the answers. And I am not that savior. I love helping you fix them, but I
How to Keep Your Citizenry From Going Crazy
One of the things I forgot to write in my post on the individual mental health things one should do to endure a city is to embrace its warts and try to heal them. However, some warts are so bad, they might as well be cancerous. This is where you
