The tree circle offers an interface between the biological and the architectural. This typology of tree circles in a photo-essay format documents a walk taken one day in Waikīkī near my old neighborhood (I lived in Ala Moana)... Tree circles are an element of civic heritage because they are a mood-crafting element of the landscape image of the street. They pattern in ways that mark the passage of time in a place with continuity, discontinuity, salience and backgrounding. Take a look…

Cities and landscapes tell a multifaceted story that invites us to participate and spectate. This is a story of relationship and a story of agency, where mountains and valleys and rivers act like characters in the same way that buildings and streets and neighborhoods have a life of their own. Both cities and the geographies that support them converge in a story of identity and imageability, making geographical urbanism a sort of autobiographical tale of this hybrid place. Here is the full text of an article I wrote for the Rotterdam-based MONU, a Magazine ON Urbanism...