Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us Some examples →

Trump attacks Brutalism (again): the people movers were part of the original Saarinen design washingtonian.com/2016/11/21/m... Bonus excerpt from the Eames film "The Expanding Airport" about them www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL-m...

Curious about the design for babies that both New York's outgoing and incoming mayors support? I got you www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jane Jacobs's house is totally cute (as you might have suspected) www.curbed.com/article/unic...

Here’s me taking @thewaroncars.bsky.social new book out for a spin at last month’s CicLAvia. This is going to be a great show at one of the best venues in LA. See you on November 17!

On top of other health insurance madness, Mount Sinai just dropped our family marketplace plan (Anthem BCBS) + a bunch of others ... something to keep in mind if you have doctors there choosemountsinai.org/?campaign_id

"Locations like this—a practical, unexceptional shopping center you might find in any suburb or small town in the country—are the bedrock of Ulta’s business" (I find both Ulta and Sephora terrifying but even during the pandemic they were doing numbers)

i wrote about the old wieboldt's department store on milwaukee in wicker park—fire, labor strife, leveraged buyouts, and the idiotic urban renewal plan that leveled much of the surroundings for a 600+ car parking lot and a jewel osco in the early 1980s www.postcard-past.com/wieboldts-de...

Publication day for the expanded paperback edition of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD, with a new intro and my Pulitzer-winning essays up front geni.us/designofchil... Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig... @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

Zohran graphics pivoting to the Mets (Queens) color scheme now that he's been elected

My food fussiness is almost all texture based and I CAN tell the difference between De Cecco and the US made brands so this is bad for my pasta loving family

One of her best haterations

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions. bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

Give the gift of bricks this holiday season! www.brickofchicago.com/buy/2026-des... (I have nothing to do with this, I just think it's great and one of my go-to Christmas presents for the last few years.)

There are now cement trucks entering the White House construction site, which is not what you'd expect for a project that hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet. The White House has previously said no NCPC approvals are needed yet because they're just doing demo, not construction.

Unbelievable. Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing,' Parents Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

Minor personal victory. Today I typed ELOQUENT FINISH into my book manuscript which is my way of putting a pin in it. Book is due Dec 31, 2025 and finally I can see my way to the end (10Kish more words to go)

My OTHER favorite story this morning: Woman buys 4,500 items of clothing from a closed store, figures out what to do with it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...

Kriston @kristoncapps.bsky.social wrote about how Trump's jumped-up hotel ballroom would even be bad at being a hotel ballroom. This is wedding decor. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

As someone who has been AT-adjacent my whole life (I've hiked the Presidentials, through-hikers stop and shop near my grandparents' house) it was fascinating and refreshing to read Rusty's blisters-and-rain-and-all account

This is my #1 for the Kid Agenda: opt-out School Streets nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a... closely followed by Low-Traffic Neighborhoods

I wrote my senior thesis about Seventeen magazine as a text that cloaked parental wishes in teen slang, and the grown-up Vogue takeover of Teen Vogue seems like that, but uncoded.

New Mexico becomes the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.

The main thing I wanted to emphasize is that the bulldozing of procedure, precedent, and expert consultation is the same phenomenon we've seen in every other aspect of the Trump Presidency. In the case of the East Wing, that informal structure was particularly weak because of its history.

It's great that Entertaining is going back in print BUT (and this was overlooked in the doc as well) the real Martha Stewart taste moment was the *magazine* which walked the Modern Farmhouse line better than any current developer because her color sense is top notch www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/d...

If I'm recommending books I had a moment for dresses! with pockets! with fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner Tessa Hulls at the awards ceremony: She's the second winner for a graphic memoir (after Maus), for Feeding Ghosts www.pulitzer.org/winners/22701

My kids know I have done a lot of reading about video games even though I don't like playing so whenever they take up a "design" game they report back. Latest is -- for some reason ;) :| -- Papers Please papersplea.se

Good defense of halloween, the most urban holiday we have. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/30/t...

once again posting The Chart

I have seen lots of hand wringing about the early voting turnout being older and have we considered that the younger people are all waiting for Friday because they want the Halloween sticker

No one should have to put up with this shit but in particular kids should not have to put up with this shit

Recent confusion over Bill de Blasio versus Bill DeBlasio reminds me of the time now-18yo was invited to a Bob the Builder birthday party and he thought it was a Bill de Blasio party

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social did you paint this on my least favorite intersection?

Polls people keep talking about "voters 55 and older" as if they were super old and it took me until today to realize that my *husband* is a "voter 55 and older"

The value of #schoolstreets #openstreets #plazas cannot be measured by cranks. But ask children - they know our streets are out of balance. Broadway near UnionSquareNY! #Urbanism

A gold-adorned brownie is basically what that ballroom is going to be

I love that one of the Chicago Architecture Biennial sites is a former H&M on Magnificent Mile chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/sites/840-n-...

It's a real bummer that this is still true in a book about New York architecture in the 2000s. "This men’s club is offset, occasionally and therefore only slightly, by a few female voices, including Alexandra Lange, Julie V. Iovine, and Karrie Jacobs." archidose.substack.com/p/20-years-o...

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!

Program and buyers guide: 1975 Chicago Flower and Garden Show, April 5-13, 1975, McCormick Place, sponsored by Chicago Horticultural Society. Found on Explore @chicollections.bsky.social explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicag...

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

The new Fishs Eddy located on the Manhattan Bridge photo op street in DUMBO has got to be one of the most brilliant retail locations ever. Making *bank* on cheeky NYC theme tchotchkes

"I suppose the East Wing demolition is an excellent source of soil." IT IS NOT