Posts Tagged ‘John Watts’
To Those Proud and Exuberant Promoters of Town, City and State: I say thank you!
In this extended holiday essay, explorer / spelunker / observer John Watts delivers an everyman’s take on Chesterton’s oft-noted adage: Places don’t become loved because they are great; they become great because they are loved. Does your town invite “word-of-mouth walking?” I am always profoundly moved and impacted by those special strangers I’ve had the…
Read MoreAn Ode to Old Towns
PlaceShakers takes a very literal step off our comfortably beaten paths of urban design, zoning reform and community resiliency today to focus on, as the software industry calls it, the “end-user experience.” Despite, or perhaps because of, having no vocational connection to placemaking at all, explorer / spelunker / observer John Watts offers up some…
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