How to turn your neighborhood into a village —or build it from scratch by Nicolás Boullosa on December 19, 2024 Can intentional communities balance connection and individuality to counter solitude? Is there a way to foster meaningful living without falling …
Friends couldn’t afford rent. Pooled together to buy homes instead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 22, 2024 Phil Levin and Kristen Berman wanted to live near their friends, but they didn’t want to sacrifice their privacy, so …
Living car-free in the Arizona desert: inside Culdesac Tempe (full walkthru) by Kirsten Dirksen on February 12, 2024 Just outside sprawling Phoenix, a car-free neighborhood built from scratch has gone up, the first one of its kind in …
They wanted affordable & livable housing. They got company towns by Nicolás Boullosa on December 21, 2023 Fed up with constraints around a lack of enough housing inventory around their sprawling offices that could alleviate pressure on …
How Pocket Hoods that work like villages boost people’s wellbeing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2022 From agile neighborhoods for veterans or the unhoused to pocket hoods for Portlanders, the dozens of co-housing villages designed by …
Language & thought: why words’ nuances make it hard for AI by Nicolás Boullosa on December 1, 2021 In a short time, chatbots have evolved to the point of passing as “intelligent.” A machine passes as “intelligent” if …
Heterotopias: living lessons from destination communities by Nicolás Boullosa on November 25, 2021 Since they were born, our three children have visited a space whose layout they seem to naturally understand and benefit …
Purificadores de agua old/high tech: innovación intemporal by Nicolás Boullosa on August 26, 2012 Una avanzadilla de guerreros de alguno de los pueblos no contactados que sobreviven en el mundo y las últimas expediciones …
