I’m sure one of the big challenges of the research process is when you do the research into what you think will be a good project idea, but then you realize that it’s not going to work.   I’ve had… Continue Reading →

Understanding why people like suburbia is probably a key challenge in addressing our needs in city environments. It’s undeniable that suburbia as it stands is unsustainable, and continuing the development of suburbs as they are is likely to worsen some… Continue Reading →

Since I last wrote, I got back my feedback on my initial proposal, met with the potential project partners, and have continued to read books that I find relevant to the subject matter that I might be interested in talking… Continue Reading →

One idea I’ve found urbanism to be fascinated with is community. It’s a reasonable fascination, if you ask me. We live in a time where isolation and loneliness are rampant. People feel detached, unable to find friends, romantic partners, hobbies,… Continue Reading →

In a recent post, I mentioned wanting to read “Emergent Tokyo”, a book that discusses the urban structures of Post-War Tokyo that are often viewed as iconic, alongside their “emergent nature”, meaning that they arose naturally, rather than being top-down… Continue Reading →

So one debate that I had been thinking about for a bit was whether I wanted to work with the project partners that EFI works with on my dissertation. On one hand, having a concrete base to build my ideas… Continue Reading →

Suburbs have been a big problem with the design of American Cities for decades, and they’ve been an aspect of those cities that has bothered me for many years now–at minimum since I began having to drive to school back… Continue Reading →

One of the things I’ve thought about a lot this semester is the writing of Tom Slater in Shaking Up the City. This was a reading in Envisioning Sustainable Lands and Cities class that has stayed with me throughout the… Continue Reading →

This is probably going to be a relatively short entry since not much has happened since the last blog, but I did have my first idea for something I’d maybe be interested in researching for my project, and it was… Continue Reading →

After a month and half of classes at EFI, I think it’s about time that I start thinking about what I’ve learned in my first two intensive classes and the takeaways these lessons have given me to consider as I… Continue Reading →