Archive - Milky Cities

Assorted Notes from the Social Life of Urban Spaces & A Pattern Language

William H. Whyte put a bunch of time lapse cameras in 16 NYC plazas and 3 NYC parks, observing human behavior. As a result, he noticed many complex…

Nov 18, 2022 •

October 2022

The Urban Imagination Barrier

issue 04 - how parklets are fixing this

Oct 4, 2022 •

September 2022

Yokochos, a Perfect Third Place

issue 03 - my notes from emergent tokyo: designing the spontaneous city

Sep 23, 2022 •

April 2022

why college campuses are so loved

issue 02 - short piece on how college campuses generate serendipitous encounters

Apr 15, 2022 •

March 2022

a quick primer on why most US cities are terrible

issue 01 - urban sprawl, human-scale streets, public spaces, experiments

Mar 1, 2022 •

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