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An Architect Reconsiders ‘The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom’

by Erik Bootsma | May 31, 2020

By Erik Bootsma When Russell Kirk wrote “The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom” in the early 1980s, one would be hard pressed to find architecture at a lower point. In his essay, Dr. Kirk describes how it came to pass that over the course of the previous forty...

The Patterns of Living

by Gene Callahan | Jan 12, 2020

Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance by Michael W. Mehaffy. Sustasis Press, 2017. Paperback, $20. Reviewed by Gene Callahan I first encountered the work of the great urban theorist Jane Jacobs due to the...

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