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How to Talk to Strangers During Quarantine
— How to Talk to Strangers During Quarantine - VICE
Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility
— Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility, Nora Codes
When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries
— When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries, Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times
How Five Friends Saved a Tulip Farm From Covid-19
— Mother's Day Bouquets: How Five Friends Saved a Tulip Farm From Covid-19, Kirk Johnson in The New York Times
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
— If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs, TTTThis
Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic
— Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic, Jason Kottke quoting Kirkpatrick Sale's 1980 book Human Scale
Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased
— Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased, Matthew Taylor in The Guardian
Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
— Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?, Ben Smith in The New York Times
Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks
— Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks - The Atlantic, Barton Gellman in The Atlantic
Streetspace for London
— Streetspace for London, Transport for London
Inside Trump's coronavirus meltdown
— Inside Trump's coronavirus meltdown, Edward Luce in The Financial Times
Why the Cessna Is Such a Badass Plane
— Why the Cessna Is Such a Badass Plane, Alex Hollings in Popular Mechanics
Inside King Arthur Flour
— Inside King Arthur Flour, the Company Supplying America's Sudden Baking Obsession, David H. Freedman in Marker
Mother Earth Mother Board
— Mother Earth Mother Board, Neal Stephenson in WIRED
Who Eats On TV
— Netflix's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Changes the Rules for Who Eats on TV, Jenny G. Zhang in Eater
The American Room
— The American Room, Paul Ford
The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise
— The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise, Quoctrung Bui and Emily Badger in The New York Times
Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies
— Coronavirus and cities: What urban designers don't get about COVID-19, Alissa Walker in Curbed
How La Haine lit a fire under French society
— How La Haine lit a fire under French society, Phil Hoad in The Guardian
The COVID-19 Recession May Change The Way Americans Spend Forever
— The COVID-19 Recession May Change The Way Americans Spend Forever, Anne Helen Peterson in BuzzFeed News
My Ten Games of the Decade
Moments of intense concentration, placing things just right, are interspersed with blissful periods of sitting back and just watching the city work. Immensely satisfying, gratifyingly creative and endlessly mesmerising, Cities has spent half the decade as one of my most successful tools for relaxation. — My Ten Games of the Decade, Dom Ford
No Apocalypse
— No Apocalypse - Protean Magazine, Michael Malloy in Protean
On Skye, Nursing Home Deaths Expose a Covid-19 Scandal
— On a Scottish Isle, Nursing Home Deaths Expose a Covid-19 Scandal, Benjamin Mueller in The New York Times
All the history I learned in my youth came from the American Girl doll books
— All the history I learned in my youth came from the American Girl doll books, Jessie Gaynor in LitHub
How Phoebe Bridgers Made 'Punisher'
— How Phoebe Bridgers Made 'Punisher', Angie Martoccio in Rolling Stone
Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance
— Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance, Michael Specter in The New Yorker
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
— Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism? - Los Angeles Review of Books, Jodi Dean in Los Angeles Review of Books
Off-Road Land Trains
— The Incredible Story of the US Army's Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains, by Peter Holderith
American Police Departments
— 7 People Shot at Louisville Protest Over the Death of Breonna Taylor - The New York Times, Mike Baker in The New York Times — National Guard Called As Minneapolis Erupts in Solidarity for George Floyd, Matt Furber, John Eligon, and Audra D. S. Burch in The New York Times
Reading in the dark
— Reading in the dark, Cassie Evans