Escaping GENERICA
Jeff KerrWhy do our communities all look the same? Why can't we build what we actually want? Essays exploring the forces that shape the places we live.
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: On Third Places and the Friction We Designed Away
“We didn’t know what Third Places were doing for us because they were always doing it.”
Do you remember Al Rosen?
I watched him for years but never really paid attention to him. He sat at the end of the bar in 1980’s show, Cheers,...
The Space You Finish: Why the Best Public Spaces Leave Something Undone
“He’d spent twenty years watching what people actually did in public space. Not what the design intended. What the body decided.”
The book is still on my shelf. William Whyte’s signature inside the front cover. Dayton, 1990.
I wa...
Fitting and Belonging Are Not the Same Thing: Cleveland's Lakefront and the Question Nobody Asked
What Fits and What Belongs
Cleveland is closer than it’s been in decades to reimagining its lakefront. Burke Lakefront Airport, 450 acres of flat land on Lake Erie just north of downtown, may finally close. The Browns are leaving for...
The Signal Problem
I knew it was going to be a long night when I couldn’t find a parking spot.
Our township lot is small. On normal meeting nights, most spaces sit empty. When I have to circle twice and wedge my car against the far curb, I already know.
I t...
The Tragedy of the Convenience
“We didn’t lose community because we stopped valuing it. We lost it because we successfully automated every behavior that used to produce it as a byproduct.”
It was a Tuesday. Not a remarkable one. This Tuesday, I didn’t have a publ...
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With 35 years in urban planning, now Director of Planning & Policy for the Greater Sandusky Partnership, I explore the structural interventions and economic energy required to build distinctiveness.
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