Environment. Architecture. Urbanism.
Every decision about design and construction is also a decision about the larger environment, natural and constructed. It's a step toward our shared future--for the short and the long term.
The city is a built environment, but it is also a cultural field and generator of history--a mysterious phenomenon that joins almost infinite narratives. My narratives are about some of the decisions that affect our built environment--and the natural one, too.
The city is a built environment, but it is also a cultural field and generator of history--a mysterious phenomenon that joins almost infinite narratives. My narratives are about some of the decisions that affect our built environment--and the natural one, too.
Clair Enlow is a freelance journalist and civic columnist for the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, covering environmental issues, urban design, architectural policy and professional culture. Her byline has appeared in Metropolis, ARCADE, Pacific and Architectural Record magazines and several other arts and design publications. She is a regular contributor to Landscape Architecture Magazine, a Loeb Fellow (2002), a NIAUSI (Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy) Fellow (2009) and a visiting scholar with the American Academy in Rome (2009).