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Hands and Cities

Disciplines:
craft
architecture
architecture/urbanism

Summary

Substack newsletter exploring urbanism, architecture, craft, and the relationship between how we build and how we live.

Core Contribution

Architecture and urbanism for serious non-specialists: Hands and Cities represents the genre of substantive design and urbanism writing that sits between academic journals and lifestyle content — taking seriously both the aesthetics and the politics of the built environment. Part of the broader Substack ecosystem of expert-written niche newsletters.

Historical Influences

Jane Jacobs tradition Christopher Alexander

Intellectual Lineage

Urban Design WritingArchitecture Criticism

Contemporaries & Peers

Construction Physics Works in Progress

Minds Influenced

Architecture Newsletter Genre

Intellectual Posterity

Architecture Newsletter Genre

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