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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Being OF the Water, Not ON It
The Cold You Got Through
I grew up going down to the lake without ever getting to it.
Old Cleveland Municipal Stadium, thrown up on the lakefront in 1931 and later nicknamed the Mistake by the Lake. A concrete horseshoe, eighty thousan...
The Four Horsemen of the Clipboard
It starts the way these always start. A consultant, three public workshops, foam boards on easels, a roll of colored dots.
The dots cluster on Main Street every time. The four blocks nobody has invested in since the eighties.
The renderin...
The Friction Floor: Why the neighborhood I defended felt like too much work
Early Adopter
I lived in Cleveland’s downtown Warehouse District in the mid-nineties, before the condos, before anybody called it a boom. I told people I was an early adopter, which was a flattering way of saying almost nobody lived t...
The Golden Shovel Fallacy: Why We Celebrate Giants and Ignore the Invisible Builder Three Blocks Away
“ Every community has a Mike—the local builder who doesn’t get the golden shovel or the photo op. He’s just trying to add four units to the neighborhood while fighting the same bureaucratic buzzsaw as the mega-developer, but without the leg...
Salvation by Bricks: What one architect taught me in a stairwell that belonged to nobody
The card always arrives in early December every year for the past thirty-five years.
One of his own paintings on the front. He painted the way he did everything else, quietly and well and without mentioning it.
Inside, a note written to m...
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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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