Month: October 2014
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A couple modernist buildings in Norfolk; 10/12/2014
I have tried to convince my brother Alex that his next book should be a history of Norfolk’s willful self-destruction during the fifties and sixties, when federal redevelopment money paid to tear down much of the older part of the city. (“slum clearance”) And it was not a piecemeal approach; entire neighborhoods vanished, intended […]
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Prytania Street, New Orleans LA, 10/5/2014
If I was writing this ten years ago, I would have said that even though I loved New Orleans, there was a long list of reasons why New Orleans, at least on paper, might have been the worst city in America. Crime was terrible, public education was a mess, the streets were filled with potholes. […]
urban bicycle journeys 