
Habitats & Humans is a Substack-based publication by urbanist, entrepreneur and public speaker Barrie Barton. A free monthly subscription newsletter and 20 annual pay-walled essays, Habitats & Humans exists because where we are shapes who we are.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 31 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 14 days ago |
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I must start this essay confessing that although there are many of them in the world, the zombie city I had in mind when writing was Melbourne in Australia. This is not an opinion I ever thought I would voice out loud because it’s political...
Not everything that counts can be counted.
Behavioural codes of self-optimising are the very opposite of Fight Club: The first rule of self-optimising is that you should talk incessantly about self-optimising. Tell everyone – you have the...
I’ve spent most of my adult life thinking about the relationship between where we live and who we become as a result. The name of this Substack, Habitats and Humans, is one of the ways in which I bring this thinking into the world. It is a...
I turned 50 the other day. I wanted to write an essay about how much I miss my dad who died when he was my age and didn’t get to do many of the things he wanted to do with his life. When I sat down at the desk I realised the feelings I have...
Psychogeography
Move towards the light.
The future is not a place on a map that we are all going to. It is an idea that we have in our head about a time that has not yet arrived. We have plenty of ideas that only play lightly on our mind...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Barrie Barton is a thinker, writer, speaker, entrepreneur and place maker. He believes cities are habitats for humans, and that by improving our environment we in turn make a positive impact in peoples’ lives.
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