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SHORT #34: More Reasons to Bicycle
Last time I mentioned that there are many many more reasons to ride a bicycle. Indeed, and as I keep having interesting encounters, so too do I keep…
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SHORT #33: Reasons to Bicycle Instead of...
Although there are many practical reasons to ride a bike, whether it be for physical or mental health, environmental benefits, or the economic savings…
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Patrick M. Lydon
SHORT #32: Apartment Towns or Mixed-Use Neighborhoods?
finding the best way to invest in our neighborhoods
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The Corner Shop: Can we Build the Possible City?
For the writing this fortnight, I am sharing a slice of our personal journey, as we open a new studio and public cafe/event space here in Daejeon…
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SHORT #31: 20 Meters of Street
a look at the difference between 'suburbs' in Japan and America
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SHORT #30: Kawaguchi and the Blossoms and the Turtle Doves
There is a foot bridge that crosses over the northern tip of a narrow island in the city center. On this island tip — which is really a fancified sand…
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SHORT #29: A Race to the Daikon
Near the top of the hill we gathered, in the orchard in a circle, although, it would probably look more like an amoeba if you saw it from above. A…
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SHORT #28: Peace of Steam - The Japanese Sento
Homes have showers nowadays, so why are neighborhood 'community' bath houses still kind of a thing here?
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SHORT #27: Murakami and the Wind Tunnel
morning in a 'Corbusian' Japanese neighborhood
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The Possible City
The Possible City
Hand-illustrated stories from East Asia, peeking into the ecological cities we dream about.
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