MAGAZINE and NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:

The following recent articles cover transportation, the environment, preservation, architecture, and planning, with more to come.

• Ending the Auto-Air Age
  • "All Paved Over With No Place to Go"
  • "Uncloaking the Romance of Flying: the enervated air age"
  • "Let's Take a Stroll, You and I"
  • "Car Culture's Excess Rolls Toward Oblivion"
  • "Faster Speedways or Swifter Madness?"
  • "Big Dig Bluster: A Cautionary Tale"
  • "Turning Green to Gray"
  • "Kicking the Petroleum Habit: Ending Auto-domination"
  • "A Brief History of Parking: The Life and After-life of Paving the Planet"
  • "Wolves in Green Clothing"
  • "Gas Pains and SUVs"
  • "Buying our way out of the Badlands: No Such Thing!"
  • "Dreaming of a Clean Car"
  • "Time to De-pave the Landscape"
  • "Traffic-calming: A Whirligig"
  • "Without a Car in the World"
• Evergreening, Evergreeners, and Green Essays
  • "Green Valedictorians"
  • "Dimming the Lights for Birds: Ending the Glass Crash"
  • "Water Works"
  • "Shades of Green: Extreme, Lean, Supreme"
  • "School Bells and School Green: Dissing the Toxins"
  • "Eco-building's New Mortar"
  • "Renewable Energy, Renewing America"
  • "A Not So Simple Greening for Sustainability"
• Global Warming Issue Heats Up
  • "What Can Planners Do?"
  • "Shore Losers"
  • "What to Do As Oil Peaks Out: A Geologist as Amiable Guide"
  • "Heating up to Cool the Planet"
  • "Activists Take Hold of the Weather: Climate Activists"
  • "The Car and Global Warming"
  • "Overheated Car Culture"
  • "Attitudes Towards Warming Effects Are Too Cool"
• Planning and Architecture
  • "The Suburbanization of New York: Home Town, No Town, or New Town?"
  • "Beautiful Bridges: Sweepstake Winners or Sweepaway Menace"
  • "Connecting the Dots between the Big City and the Green Trail"
  • "How the Dutch Do It: Housing in the Netherlands"
  • "Holland's Urban Water Ways: Can They Endure"
  • "Watery Dreams: Redressing an 'Urban Lake'"
  • "Capitol Mis-Steps: Security Strikes Design"
  • "'Timber!' on the Historic Lawn"
  • "Making Place from Pavement: Providence's Waterplace"
  • "The Courthouse as a Bastion Against Terror"
• City-scaping, Sprawl-busting, and Preservation
  • "Stopping Sprawl at the School Door"
  • "Urban and Other Infernos: An Author's Apocalypse Now"
  • "Strengthening the City-Country Connection: Making Farms Flourish"
  • "How Green Are Our Brownfields?"
  • "Ticky-Tacky Big Boxes: Fighting the Chains"
  • "The Millennium: Future Sluggish or Future Shock?"
  • "'Save Our Land, Save Our Towns' Commentary"
  • "Closing Down 'Open Space'"
  • "All Sprawl Down"
  • "Robert Moses: The Master Builder" (pdf file - 340 KB)
• Landscape Architecture
  • "The Country in the City: Olmsted's Centennial Survival (barely)"
  • "Religiousity versus Secular Majestry in the National Parks?"
  • "Thinking Like An Urban Park: Of Anniversaries and New Offerings"
  • "Central Park Turns 150 and Other Cities Take Note"
  • "Landscape Architecture: Earth in the Balance"
  • "History Becomes a Berkshires 'Hangout House'"
• Getting Back On Track
  • "Flying Way Out Yonder: A Runway to Sprawl"
  • "A Reawakening for Rail: Cities Get Back on Board"
  • "Bring Back the Trains, Fast"
  • "Sunbelt Cities Look to Light Rail to Connect the Dots"
  • "Rail Renaissance: Transit Is On Track in America's Sun Belt Cities"
  • "Stop the Bickering and Start Planning to Blunt the Airport Crunch"
• After the Fall
  • "Hunger for Memorials: New York's Monument to the Irish Famine"
  • "Making Memorials, Sealing Memories: Healing for Times Past and Present"
  • "Bolting the Doors: Design for a Secure Future
  • "From Ground Zero to Ground Everywhere"
  • "Shopped Out on the Homefront"
  • "A Stretch Beyond Skyscrapers"
  • "Getting to Ground Zero"
  • "Flag-waving and Faux Environmentalism"
• Boston: At Home in the Hub
  • "The Year of Living Dismally"
  • "Town vs. Gown in Allston: Harvard vs. the Embattled Neighborhood"
  • "How the Big Dig Went Bad?"
  • "Saving the World of Dainty Dot"
  • "Back Bay: By the Mall, Just trying to connect."
  • "People's Park or Disposable Landscape?"
  • "Winners, Sinners of Hub Design for 2003"
  • "The Spamming of Boston: Selling Out the City"
  • "More Digs Down Under: Boston's Latest Uprooting"
  • "Boston's Bridge Too Far: A Logo of Lost Chances"
  • "Beyond the Big Dig: What About Pedestrians..."
  • "Tripping and Triumphing: New Year's Homeland Highlights"
  • "Block That Bulky Bus"
  • "Sizing Up Boston's Landscape and Cityscape: Year End Roses and Radishes for 2000"
  • "No Plan in the Land of the Last Hurrah"
  • "A Celebration for Amtrak"
  • "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"
  • "Getting There"
  • "Boston in the Boom"

ESSAYS/CHAPTERS:

The following are essays, chapters and introductions on various urban and environmental themes.

• Essays/Chapters
  • "Encounters with Silence: A Kind of Hush"
  • "Foreword to Revised CARtoons by Andy Singer"
  • "The Lived-in City"
  • "The Good City"
  • "Old Man No More: Last rites for a revered jumble of rocks"
  • "Introduction to WalkBoston: A peripathetic (What Else?) Guide to Walking"
  • "The Lost Innocence of Weather"
  • "The Solace of Closed Spaces: Cities as Saviour"
  • "The Enormous Lighted-ness of Being"
  • "Mountains of Composure, Mountains of Conflict"
  • "A Woman Non-Warrior"

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