Tag: City
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Rebuilding from the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Disaster
The distinctive rebuilding of the Sendai coast When Yohei Morita and I visited Tōhoku, Japan in 2014, I was most affected by the areas decimated by the tsunami — but it wasn’t for the reasons one might imagine. With the exception of the cities still in the radiation exclusion zone, most of the quarters destroyed…
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In Between Detroit’s Failing Streetlights
With Detroit’s pending emergency manager likely addressing the city’s failing streetlight system, and business groups funding streetlights on their own, I thought it was time to post an excerpt of a project on which I’ve been working since 2009. When I moved from Chicago to Southwest Detroit for the summer of 2009, I was determined…