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What truly fulfills us at Year’s End (Hint: it’s not the presents)

How to turn your neighborhood into a village —or build it from scratch

Unauthorized musings on The Great Disconnect: men's online withdrawal

A Missoula deer, an elusive wolf, and our connections with the world

Sonoma County’s innocent self-building days: Jenine's $3,500 rolling home

Is it a dark era? It’s certainly a dark time of the year, & that’s okay

Our cultural sense of "permanent emergency" (as seen in pop culture)

Poetics of dead leaves & tree landscaping as best thermostat around

When exurbs aspire to learn from Old World villages: Esmeralda

How apartments got their bad name in America, and what to do about it

Learning to live in cities in the Southwest, 11th-century edition

Art of playing fair when nobody’s watching: man & the commons

Friendship: when togetherness fights alienation (& housing costs)

Deinfluencing politics: men’s groupthink and violent polarization

Recovering lost knowledge: traditional practices for a safer future

Creation & self-actualization for artists, architects, & builders of all sorts

Business districts reinvented? Downtown LA from the 80s to now

Lifetime memories of tile designs —and a tile maker’s handmade house

Escape from Non-Place: travelers that manage to see through modernity

The island effect: how tiny Skrova became a fishing and artist haven

All the places we can go: how the digital enframing changes our experience

Being optimistic despite the gerontocraZy may feel revolutionary

Engineering Eden: lessons from remote Fordlândia 100 years later

Unofficial history of databases, from tally sticks to passports

Before vanlife: revisiting the quest for meaning & “home” in transience

From Woodstock, VT to Concord, MA: the birth of (one idea of) a nation

On the riddle of consciousness and human vision: a tale of light from darkness

Dual role of wood in human history: a blessing & a curse

Embracing a third culture: our family's journey from Europe to the US

Designing homes that age well & adapt to life’s different stages

Utopian progress & architecture of collapse: Bayocean, Futurism & The Line

Why a lack of porosity in homes and urbanism is making people sick (studies)

North of the Sun: outdoors culture & remote communities in Norway

Better experiences online & offline? Internet rewilding vs. "inferno of the same"

Sense of place vs. non-places. Our relation with the things surrounding us

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família: tribute to Nature of a modern anti-modern

Does an increase in social housing keep cities affordable? Not always

Productive idleness? from the Roman "otium" to no-screen nights

It didn’t just start: genealogy of resentment & self-righteousness

Can humans "hibernate" to prevent disease & extend life?

The places we've lived: our pros/cons of city, suburbs & countryside

Why homelessness programs work in some cities but not in others

From fires to mudslides: the spiraling cost of insurance in CA