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Essays Society 

All the Lonely People: The Atomized Generation

March 11, 2020August 29, 2020 12 min read Willow Liana Atomization, Community, Essential Reading, Place

We’re not only facing a crisis of loneliness but we’re atomized. Our systems seem designed to further undermine social fabric and place.

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America Needs to Build Strong Towns Not More Infrastructure Erraticus
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Essays Society 

America Needs to Build Strong Towns, Not More Infrastructure

February 17, 2020August 29, 2020 9 min read Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund Community, Essential Reading, Place, Urbanism

The key to fixing our cities, to creating Strong Towns, is to treat them like complex, emergent systems capable of iterative change.

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Their Home Not Mine Erraticus Iona McHaney
(Paula May)
Culture Essays 

On Their Home, Not Mine

December 14, 2019May 19, 2021 13 min read Iona McHaney Community, Essential Reading, Nostalgia, Place

A “third culture kid,” now an adult, reflects on the unrelenting yearning she has for home and the struggle we face to live in the present.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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