Copenhagen in July: notes from a borrowed apartment in the world’s happiest city by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2026 Rankings keep crowning the Danish capital. A few days there recently, sleeping among somebody else’s books, suggested the secret is …
The man who plants the rain: water harvester Brad Lancaster’s urban oasis by Nicolás Boullosa on July 17, 2026 Thirty years after his first illegal curb cut, a desert neighborhood cools its streets with a million gallons of monsoon …
World Cup, now and then: the windows-down summer, Europoors & the game by Nicolás Boullosa on July 1, 2026 A World Cup in the backyard, a heat wave back home, and the transatlantic quarrel over who gets to be …
Three booms broke over Point Richmond’s backwaters. The village outlived them all by Nicolás Boullosa on June 4, 2026 Across the bay from San Francisco, Point Richmond is a piece of the past that survived the industrial era and …
Walking the margins: how places reveal themselves in the gaps by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2025 From the cul-de-sac to the canal path, our built environments shape how we move, think, and belong. Psychogeography isn’t dead—it …
Can backyard tiny homes solve CA’s affordable housing need? by Kirsten Dirksen on March 24, 2019 Looking for a local solution to the California housing shortage, Clovis city planners bypassed legalizing tiny houses on wheels for …
Writer builds backyard mountain cottage as personal space by Kirsten Dirksen on July 22, 2015 As top cities become pricey and competitive, smaller yet vibrant cities attract those in search of more than work. Crissie …
Converted garage as income-earning small home in exurban LA by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2014 When Chris Aune bought his home in Lancaster, California, he was looking for a place for just himself and his …
Brick & mortar frontier town bank becomes NorCal downtown home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 18, 2013 When Bert Crews was looking for a home in the tiny frontier-style town of Tomales, California, it just happened to …
Intentionally small home: urban living in North Carolina by Kirsten Dirksen on June 10, 2013 Nicole Alvarez grew up in a typical American suburbia: spacious homes, large yards, not walkable to town. Then she began …
