by Deftspace | Apr 16, 2026 | City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Energy, Health, How to (Re)Build Your City, Infrastructure, Planning, Resilience, Sustainable Home, Uncategorized
Or $8/gal or $15/gal or whatever’s three times what you’re used to paying. What can we do in places built around driving everywhere with fuel that’s suddenly unaffordable? Plenty: Insulate buildings – roofs, walls, windows, doors, floors. Behold the power of...
by Deftspace | Jul 26, 2023 | City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Design X Deficit, Energy, How to (Re)Build Your City, Infrastructure, Invasives, Planning, Resilience
1) Trees, trees, trees to reverse heat island, create shade, lessen ozone production 2) Shade structures, especially at bus stops and where people walk or gather 3) Green spaces in every neighborhood, for a respite from the heat 4) Schools, public buildings, churches...
by Deftspace | Oct 18, 2018 | Brownfields, City Wild, Design, Design X Deficit, Health, Planning, Ruins, Vacancy, Wildlife
Image from pixabay.com. although honestly this could be any house in Connecticut. It’s October. Every door creaks, every picture has eyes that follow you, every call is coming from inside the house. Night falls sooner, mist swirls, dry leaves – or footsteps?...
by Deftspace | Aug 22, 2017 | Behavior, Brownfields, City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Health, Infrastructure, Planning, Transgressive Use, Wildlife
Single-track trail traversing a “wild” urban area; in this case, a former quarry. Also posted on Medium. Call it biking the urban wild. Portland, Oregon, is developing a citywide off-road trail network, called the Portland Off-road Cycling Master...
by Deftspace | Jan 13, 2017 | Brownfields, City Wild, Design, Planning, Transgressive Use, Wildlife
www.helenair.com It’s that time of year again – time for crows to congregate in the most unfortunate of city parks, streets, and yards. Sinister seems invented to describe the atmosphere of hundreds of crows roosting in the darkness above you, rustling and...
by Deftspace | Nov 1, 2016 | City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Energy, Infrastructure, Planning, Resilience
A post in response to The World in 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures, an online conference organized by the University of California- Santa Barbara Environmental Humanities Initiative I am inundated with climate change talk this week, the sea-level...
