Rural ghost towns: choice for urbanites in search of meaning by Nicolás Boullosa on May 4, 2022 Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina principle states that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2015 What makes a good shelter? For thousands of years we’ve been attempting to regulate the idea. Even the bible had …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary trailer) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 3, 2015 It’s undeniable that building codes save lives, but something has changed in the past couple of decades. Now, thanks to …
From Gotham to isolated, code & debt-free West Texas estate by Kirsten Dirksen on November 17, 2014 Seven years ago John Wells sold his heavily-mortgaged home in upstate New York and bought 40 acres in West Texas …