Urban Residue - leftover thoughts from the day

Hard-working neighborhood volunteers hosted the 2nd Annual Halloween Festival in Whalen Park in The Bronx on Saturday. Again this year, a s...

Uses considered undesirable often take hold in residual spaces. Eschewed from places with stronger controlling uses, marginal activities set...

Twenty years ago, A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by J. B. Jackson was published. I didn't read the book for the first time until a fe...

Space becomes public, and can really only remain public, through the practice of collective power. The government can exercise its power on ...

Some urban residents just aren't ready or able to give up their cars yet. On small lots, the driveways can eliminate any front yard. No ...

There has been a lot of discussion about the "poor door" scandal in New York City. The New York Times covered it in depth yester...

A few months ago, I passed through Salinas, California for a funeral. I wish the circumstances had been better, and that I could have spent ...