Shorter pieces, field notes, and thinking-in-progress. More frequent than the newsletter; less finished than the essays. Everything here is in some sense a draft.
The phrase I keep coming back to is "quiet infrastructure." People ask me what it means. It is not a technical term. It is a disposition. Infrastructure that does not need you to believe in it before it works — and that does not punish you when it fails.
Read post →Tel Aviv's red line finally opened. The delay lasted longer than some of my readers have been alive. What does a delay that long cost a city — not in money, but in behaviour, in expectation, in how people learn to move?
Bulgaria's second city has been losing population for thirty years. Every infrastructure decision is made in the shadow of that decline. What happens when a city has to plan without the assumption of growth?
The cities on the conference circuit are rarely the ones doing the most interesting work. The interesting work happens quietly, in places that cannot afford to announce themselves first.
I have never published in Hebrew. This is not an accident. It is a decision I made around 2010 and have not revisited since, because the reasoning still holds. The conversations worth having about cities are happening in English.