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Building For Themselves: The Mexicali Experiment
“I think most people have given up hope for realizing beauty.
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The Practice of Patterns
How We Build: Part III
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Letter From New Orleans
We are in the street, having just turned down Magazine.
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Letter From Spain: The Eternal Present
On memory and modernity
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A Quick April Update
In advance of some longer-form work later this month, I thought I’d send a quick update.
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The Brutal Square: The Making and Remaking of Boston’s Government Center
Architecture—particularly for government purposes—has both meaning and power.
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How Single-Stair Reform Can Unlock Incremental Housing
I thought I’d share an article of mine that was published in Strong Towns today, inspired by the great work Utile, the Boston Foundation, and the…
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Building Invitations
On my walks, I love to hunt for odd buildings, to look for the unusual structures that betray an attention to detail, and a sort of openness, a design…
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Tend The Garden
From the air, the Fenway Victory Gardens look like a tiny subdivision.
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An Abundance of Builders
How We Build | Part VI
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The Cost of Progress
How We Build: Part V
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Building Tradition
How We Build: Part IV
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Power and Place
Noah Harper writing on architecture, urbanism, and transportation. As seen in Strong Towns, Planetizen, and CNU's Public Square.

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