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 critical urban essay!
Noise, Order, and the Vanishing Night
Read it in About Place Journal
On Montréal’s noise bylaws and the moral acoustics of urban life.
“The city is trained to hear some people’s sounds as disorder and others as ambiance.”
Palimpsest
“Cities keep people by forgetting them slowly.”
Lys Granier 