Miscellanea '22 II

Green infrastructure as safe haven for pollinator species (relatedly, re-up for "The Greening of Cities" from 2021) • Inoculating transportation systems against the vicissitudes of global oil prices • On unlikely uses for electric school buses (and here) • On the moribund notion of gas taxes as "user fees" • The hidden costs of America's infatuation with cars • CFP: "Sauntering, observing, experimenting – Territories’ narrations and walking practice" • And from Rutgers University Press, the first book by my friend and collaborator Sébastien Tutenges: Intoxication.

Miscellanea '22

"OK Fine, Where D'you Want to Walk To?" • Having it all: Combining Green Space and Urban Living • Ever Building, Ever Falling - A Defence of the Essay (Secessio!!) • Don't Look Left - Paean to a Mountain • Forty Years in the Desert • Ed Abbey & the Robber Barons • On forests • On roadbuilding (& again, serialized in Streetsblog) • In The Hill, EcoWatch • Shifting Gears • Literadio (with Lou Marin) || Reviews: Siegbert Wolf (HaGalil) • Maurice Schuhmann: "Ein kleines Eden im Diesseits" • Gerhard Hanloser: "Gelebte Utopie" (Der Freitag).

Vernal Miscellany

Becoming Right: student conservatives as de facto ‘underground' subculture • 'George Orwell: The English Dissident as Tory Anarchist' • Ghosts in the material world • Possibilitarianism | J.M. Coetzee - On the Edge of Revelation • Vincenzo Mele - 'Walter Benjamin's Figurative Sociology' • Comprendre le réel à partir de l'irréel | The Relevance of Max Weber - Université Paul-Valéry • To Each His Tribes • Manuel Castells: "Social Movements are Destined to Die" • Erik S. Reinert | Economics and the Public Sphere: The Rise of Esoteric Knowledge, Refeudalization, Crisis and Renewal • Weaponised Forms