On December 31, 2019, the year 2020 seemed hopeful, dreamlike, full of rare possibilities. A clean slate, unblemished by human hands. It was a future yet unwritten –– over there, in the abstract. But once 2020 was here and the world went from real to surreal, and now oddly cubist, it’s hard to see past […]
2020 is reminding me of 1967. As a youngster in ’67, I can vividly recall images of parts of a major American city, Detroit, being devastated due to a civil disturbance. Once vibrant streets sat empty for years in the aftermath of the ’67 civil riots on hot, July days. Empty and hallowed out store […]
OPINION By Nat Zorach Until last week, the most frustrating headlines I was reading were mostly so-called “think pieces” about the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the future of cities. “Maybe cities are too crowded,” they would muse, vacuously. “Maybe the density of the built environment is too high.” On May 25, though, the […]