"The City" - A Drawing
What is the City? This question will be familiar to the Block Radius-faithful. Founder/co-creator/contributor Hank Felsman and I have...
Z Nalywayko
Mar 19, 2019
Imperfect Rigidity: The Inaccessibility of Manhattan's Monuments
New York City and Rome, both consisting of an awesome array of memorable structures, from the Flatiron Building to the twin churches of...
A Cooke
Mar 3, 2019
First Impressions of the USGS Map of Every Wind Turbine in the Country
Given our planet’s carbon-free energy needs and the fact that 4 million onshore wind turbines would power the entire world, it’s only...
Hank Felsman
Feb 18, 2019
Cemeteries, Cities, and Urban Evolution
"Mid the uneasy wanderings of paleolithic man, the dead were the first to have a permanent dwelling: a cavern, a mound marked by a cairn,...
Hank Felsman
Jan 10, 2019
COUNTERPOINT: People are Cities
Last week, my esteemed colleague Z laid out the argument that cities are people. Read it here. Cities are people; so too is a city, in...
Hank Felsman
Aug 1, 2017
Cities Are People
Cities are people. You disagree? Good. Cities are people. Just people. Cities are not metaphorically people, with roads as arteries and...
Z Nalywayko
Jul 27, 2017
Cycle Rickshaws: The Solution to All Our Transportation Problems
Cycle rickshaws, also known as bike taxis, or pedicabs, are easy to laugh at if proposed as serious modes of public transportation. They...
Hank Felsman
Jun 14, 2017