My essays and public discussions highlight ideas about the urban environment and how we interact and connect with nature in an unnatural world.
We're in our 'global weirding' era
Ten years after “Snowmageddon” buried Boston in 2015, I look back at that long couple of months and how winter in the city is changing.
WBUR Cognoscenti, February 6. 2025
I love my air conditioning. But it’s complicated
As more of us adopt an air-conditioned lifestyle in places that once didn’t require it, we face a larger moral question: How can we properly respond to a warming world that we don’t personally experience?
WBUR Cognoscenti, August 27, 2024
Urban nature is not an oxymoron
Imagining and creating better cities requires seeing cities as nature, not separate from it.
Boston Globe, July 13, 2023
Negotiating the shoreline
An interactive tour of one of the most important maps in the history of Boston Harbor's environmental management.
Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center
To survive rising seas, Boston may need to 'make' land again
To save itself from sea level rise, Boston may need to rely on a practice it put in the past: filling the shoreline. That will require thoughtful changes to regulations, I argue in an opinion piece.
WBUR Cognoscenti, June 15, 2021
[Re]Invention: The fight for Boston's maritime future
For much of its history, Boston was a maritime city -- is it still? I explore the question with John Duff.
ArchitectureBoston, March 1, 2018