City Punches Time Clock

These last twelve months, as all the world has struggled with the pandemic, more people everywhere are – at last – starting to realize that our health, our environment, our climate, and our lives in cities are all in need of reevaluating, rethinking, and transformation. And it’s an urgent matter of time. Time is emerging …

Rochester and the “Let’s Pretend” Game, Part II – The Riverfront

The Main Street Bridge over the Genesee, 1922. The "Let's Pretend" Czar has been reading our blog, and based on suggestions from our other readers, has made a decree about one aspect of our urbanism that Rochester should now focus attention on - our riverfront. Great waterfronts have proven to be major economic factors in many …