Author Archives: Lewis McCrary
The Surprisingly Walkable Jersey Shore
Many old beach towns realize the highest ideals of urbanism.
Golden Age of Classicism
Notre Dame’s architecture school is rebuilding the traditional city.
Do We Need More Roads and Bridges?
Words on the Street highlights the best writing on cities from around the web.
How Tourism Is Killing Venice
Words on the Street highlights the best writing on cities from around the web.
When Did We Stop Building Cities For People?
Words on the Street highlights the best writing on cities we’ve encountered this week.
Why 19th-Century Design Makes People Happy
Words on the Street highlights the best writing on urbanism we’ve encountered this week.
Bring Back Penn Station
Let New York’s rail hub be a temple—not a rats’ nest of tunnels.
Don’t Miss This Post-Election Conversation
A week after voters go to the polls, leading realists will gather to discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy.
Modernism, Food, and Public Space
Why privately-owned plazas fail the comfort test
What Is a Suburb, Anyway?
Good, walkable urbanism matters more for a neighborhood than an arbitrary labeling of city or suburb.
Tomb of the Four Freedoms
New York’s cold monument to FDR’s internationalist vision
9/11 Postmodern Memorial Failure?
In the December issue of First Things, editor R.R. Reno discusses his recent …
Singing from an iPad Hymnal
Evangelical churches have made use of technology like PowerPoint for years, but …
Israeli Writer Amos Oz on Knowing One’s Home
NPR’s Tom Ashbrook interviewed Israeli novelist Amos Oz this week. Besides Oz’s …
Do you know any Episcopalians?
On the day when all the headlines are about the UN’s official …
Getting Realist with Robert Merry
A veteran of Washington journalism takes on The National Interest
How to Remember Ike
Fighting over new additions to the capital’s collection of memorials is to …
Local Economies of Care
Amid this week’s debate over the meaning of a Vatican department’s call …
No Economic Blues Inside the Beltway
Bloomberg reports that Washington has now surpassed Silicon Valley as the metropolitan …
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