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How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and challenges of the city at close range, and reflect on how the walker creates...

In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as efficient hierarchical tree-like structures, whereas successful traditional cities...

Why do similar homes in different Chicago neighborhoods sell for vastly different prices? Beyond property characteristics, a neighborhood's reputation, or the informal "gossip" and social narratives circulating online, shape its economic value. This work...

Harvard Book Store and Long Now Boston welcome Bruno Carvalho—Harvard University professor and author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro—for a discussion of his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern...