urbanism

You’re Not Antisocial, But Your Neighborhood Might Be

12.22.2025

By Lisa Chamberlain

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement doesn’t need to be engineered; it emerges.

Stroad example (1)

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement doesn’t need to be engineered; it emerges.

What Japan Gets Right (A Partial List)

12.09.2025

By Josh Stephens

A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of how cities should work and America’s.

Shrine main & 5

A few things that demonstrate the gulf between the island nation’s philosophy of how cities should work and America’s.

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