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Preserved to Death

You’re either too poor to touch your old building, or rich enough to know better

Oct 20 • Jaime J. Izurieta

Of Bricks and Miracles

Why the technological merit of bricks surpasses that of LLMs if the criteria for judgment is human flourishing.

Oct 13 • Nick Larkins

The Next American City

My greeting as the next Editor of Southern Urbanism

Oct 7 • Jaime J. Izurieta

What a Christian Apologist Taught Me About Cities

An Urbanist's Review of G.K. Chesterton's 1908 Orthodoxy

Published on flâneurbanist • Sep 2

Downtown Servers

The buildings that run Main Street are wrongly treated as the enemy. A case for data centers.

Aug 27 • Jaime J. Izurieta

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Remarks On A Map Not Yet Finished

The Eternal American Return: The Unerasable Republic

Aug 4 • Jaime J. Izurieta

Cowboys and Industry

The health of American culture depends on building both a healthy cityscape and a healthy countryside, the two halves of the human habitat.

Jul 28 • Nick Larkins

Seeing What Isn’t There

How Imagination Shaped Me and My Country

Jul 21 • Billy Cooney

The Tyranny of Perfection

What America's founding tells us about citybuilding

Jul 14 • Eli Smith

Revisiting Euclid v. Ambler at 100

How a flawed 1926 ruling still undermines American values, ingenuity and self-reliance

Jul 7 • Aaron Lubeck

Semiquincentennial

Presenting Southern Urbanism's 5-Part series on American Land Use at 250

Jun 30 • Jaime J. Izurieta

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