7 October 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
‘Maybe all the little things add up,” says architect Mark Sanderson, standing on Logan Square in front of what will be the new Sister Cities Plaza, a cafe, pavilion, and garden designed by his firm, DIGSAU. This is surely the prayer of the decade: that in an age of shrunken budgets, a city such as Philadelphia can nevertheless reassert itself on the urban scene.
28 September 2011 | Hidden City Daily
We’ve given away our power to wow, delight, and inform
23 September 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
While we are still devoting too few resources to preserving our inherited fabric, we’re also not reliably producing strong contemporary architecture.
6 July 2011
Isn’t this, too, the ennui of urban America? Yes, amid the urban resurgence—there is a Mexican resurgence too, more on that below—most old American cities are paralyzed by economic, political, and fiscal forces outside their control.
10 May 2011 | Flash Fiction Italia
One out of ten Parisians bought Henri Barbusse’s L’Enfer when it was published in 1908, but in the play adaptation the only memorable line was something like, “the trouble with women is that one wants all of them.”