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Cities, Dads, and Stars: A Neighborhood in the Cosmos
My dad taught me how to find the Big Dipper.
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Patrick M. Lydon
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The Golden Poop and the Sacred Fly — An Adventure in Japanese Printmaking
What can a pile of poop teach us about art, beauty, and the cycles of life? Probably more than we think. An illustrated dive into ancient printmaking…
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How to Use an Urban River #5 – A Heron Yogi
Along the river in Daejeon, Korea, a heron teaches us a thing or two about life ... and yoga.
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PHOTO ESSAY: A Japanese Neighborhood Where Time Stopped
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Maybe You and I Should Just Start Building the Cities We Want — Part 1: The Search for Home
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Urban Japan: The Benefits of Neighborhood Factories. Really.
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Urban Japan: The Sword and the Scone
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Building the Cities We Want — Part 3: House by House, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
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Magnolia
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How to Use an Urban River #5 – A Heron Yogi
Along the river in Daejeon, Korea, a heron teaches us a thing or two about life ... and yoga.
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Patrick M. Lydon
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How To Use an Urban River #3 — Mugwort Flows Through Generations
At a hidden riverside spring in Korea, a grandmother and granddaughter pass down an ancient tradition — and transform it into something new.
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Summoning Sacred Nature to the City
If you see an odd person with a basket on their head and a bamboo flute in their hands, you might have happened upon a flute-playing assassin-monk…
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How to Use an Urban River — Lessons from a Korean City
They say you get what you build for. On this urban river, you sometimes get heron and kids and the scent of fried chicken. But this is a river in…
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Building the Cities We Want — Part 2: Every Path is Possible
"Any path is possible," Suhee said. I believed her. I still do. But after losing two homes and two shops, I had to ask myself: were we moving forward…
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Urban Japan: Cities of Smallness and Awareness
In the heart of Japan's mega cities, it’s not the big chaotic rush, but the subtle flow of smallness and awareness that keeps everything moving. Join me…
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Hand-illustrated stories from Japan and Korea, peeking into the cities we dream about.
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