A Brief Look at Our Progress (And What is to Come!) It’s with great joy that we announce that as of this first week of October, 2024, the major construction of the Wild Lot House has been completed! Over the next few months, we will work on the smaller, finishing details, as we prepare toContinue Reading An Update on the Wild Lot House: 2024

The Grand Union Canal, or G.U.C., is a 137-mile-long, 220-year-old man-made channel of once purely functional water. It is now long relieved of its original vocation of channeling industrialised loads of coal and aggregates between the great smoking behemoths of London and Birmingham. Now only leisure narrowboats and lightweight cruisers chug down it, their pilotsContinue Reading 12 Arches, 13 Apostles: The Liminal Wealth of the Grand Union Canal

The Reading Viaduct, which once carried trains above Philadelphia’s urban core, has no purpose. It is abandoned. Yet its size and location in the heart of a major American city has stirred imaginings of a different kind of place, one that will be the opposite of what it is now. In fact, plans have beenContinue Reading Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct as Heterotopia

It was a cloudy May morning and I had to figure out what to do about the fence. Three strands of smooth wire, spanning the width of the meadow. Easy enough to slip under, but was it electrified? Did the eight head of cattle, black and white, lazing in the grass, need that level ofContinue Reading The Way to Build a Better Road Is to Cover It with Dirt: The Goat Path, Part I