• Thanksgiving and the magic of community

    This holiday is about places and people and memory, and that has an impact on how we build and experience cities and towns.
    To me, Thanksgiving smells of cool gray skies, bare trees, decaying leaves, and an old town in Connecticut. That’s where we spent many Thanksgivings when I was a child—at the 19 th Century house of an aunt and uncle. We always went for a walk—several walks—the older and younger ones together with...Read more