The essays gathered here form part of The Moral Aesthetics of the Contemporary City, an ongoing series exploring how urban design, behaviour, and climate express competing visions of care and control.
New lyrical personal essay
Palimpsest
“Cities keep people by forgetting them slowly.”
The Iron Law of the Sweep: Why Cities Choose Erasure Over Shelter
“Sweeps solve a political problem: they make homelessness disappear from view in the blink of an eye.”
Noise, Order, and the Vanishing Night
Forthcoming in About Place Journal
On Montréal’s noise bylaws and the moral acoustics of urban life—how the regulation of sound reveals what a city believes about joy, order, and disturbance.
Lys Granier 