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Leveraging Place: 20 Photographs
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Leveraging Place: 20 Photographs
A Year-End Preview in Santa Fe
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December 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Land Use: Chasing Utopia, 2025?
History has taught us the risks of undervaluing the power of planning decisions. Overvaluing them might be just as dangerous.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The Beauty We Weren't Meant to See open.substack.com/pub/resurgen...
The real city appears when the façade slips away!
The Beauty We Weren't Meant to See
A Form-Obsessed Downtown Leaks Character Incarnate
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November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Land Use: Chasing Utopia, 2025? Last night Santa Fe showed its honesty: planning matters, but the market still shapes the city.

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Land Use: Chasing Utopia, 2025?
Reflecting on the Phase I Code Adoption in Santa Fe
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November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Seven Lessons of Presence and Patience in New Mexico--Seven lessons from my first 18 months in New Mexico.

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Seven Lessons of Presence and Patience in New Mexico
Place as Mentor
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November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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J.B. Jackson's 'The Discovery of the Street'
What is Organic and Ethereal About Life in Cities?
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November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Appreciate Planetizen for adapting my latest essay—continuing the dialogue between landscape, memory, and urban form.
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#Urbanism #SantaFeForward #Observation
“Leveraging Place”: A Toolkit for Staying Loyal to the Places We Shape
Place speaks before we plan. We need to listen.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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When Observation Turns Inward
A Field Note Between Places
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November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Leveraging Place in New Mexico
A Video Preview
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November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Landscapes as the 'First Draft' of Character

Tent Rocks is a reminder that the first “compatibility review” was geology.
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Landscapes as the 'First Draft' of Character
How Geology Could Leverage Housing Forms
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October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Leveraging Place in Practice

Autumn teaches what continuity really is:
mountains feeling nearer, light bending gold,
a landscape you recognize before you name it.

#PlaceMatters #SantaFe #LandscapeLogic #Continuity
Leveraging Place in Practice
Place Speaks Before We Plan
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October 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Leveraging Place in Clay: Robert King’s Authentic Earth -- Rob King’s clay is planning by other means.

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Leveraging Place in Clay: Robert King’s Authentic Earth
Material Continuity as Cultural Memory
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October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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When Comfort and Change Collide
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When Comfort and Change Collide
Field Notes:Compatible Sum-Total or a Discord of Pastiche?
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October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Plaza 2040 and the Leveraging Place Toolkit
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Plaza 2040 and the Leveraging Place Toolkit
More Evening Lessons in Leveraging Place
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October 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Evening Lessons in Leveraging Place
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Evening Lessons in Leveraging Place
The Dusk Toolkit of Northern New Mexico
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October 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The place is real. The shift is internal.
From London to New Mexico, a life not restarted—just re-seen.

🌄 “The Place Beyond the Brand” now on Resurgence

#PlaceWriting #SantaFe #PersonalEssay #Urbanism #LifeAfterChange

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The Place Beyond the Brand
Finally, Just Being
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October 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Charlie and the New Towns Ride Again
How Lessons in Walkable Communities Endure
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September 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Op-eds and parking lots share the same lesson: lived experience always tests the code.

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From 'Spaceways' to Land Use Reform
Watching What People Actually Do
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September 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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My 'My View' in today’s @thenewmexican: practical steps for Santa Fe’s land use reform. www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v... #SantaFe #urbanism #planning
Practical steps for Santa Fe's land use reform
Carina Julig’s recent, multi-perspective reporting on Santa Fe’s land use reform efforts conveys an important reality: Public confidence is uneven amid a process that has progressed more slowly than i...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This essay is about more than land use reform. It’s about an inner journey these past two weeks — leaving Santa Fe in my Bronco, recalling years in Europe, and deciding whether to step into civic debates.

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From Bronco to Bronco
On Returning and Belonging, After Journeys Through Elsewhere
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September 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Land Use Reform and Coalitions of the Restless
What Would Leslie Knope Do?
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September 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Santa Fe as Paris: Lessons Learned
Posting this again because for some reason I have received more direct, nice comments and messages about this than most things I’ve ever written.

Social media likes on this are sparse—showing that often, sincerity is still expressed the old fashioned way.
Santa Fe as Paris: Lessons Learned
Perception, Curation, and the Real World
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September 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Santa Fe as Paris: Lessons Learned
Perception, Curation, and the Real World
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September 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Forgotten Chicago Urbanism, Living Questions
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Forgotten Chicago Urbanism, Living Questions
Why a 1912 Design Competition Still Matters
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August 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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When Lewis Mumford Came to Santa Fe
Urbanist Lewis Mumford visited Santa Fe in 1962–63, and four conversational essays followed. Mumford’s observations are still relevant today.
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August 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM