Why are Airbnb’s & corporate ownership of single-family homes enjoying such a high degree of obscurity? When the leadership of the Boothbay Peninsula in Maine received the Town plan from New York consultants hired at the small fee of $79000.00, they narrowed the plan down from 63 priorities to three…

News from Ukraine, Housing in the Age of the Wealth-Divide, and the Politics of AI — Before Russia invaded Ukraine Maxim Kolomiets was a Project Manager working in Interactive Design. Now he delivers semi-daily written reports from inside Ukraine with hourly updates of devastating hits at multiple locations, and other news. As of late, he has taken a new direction in producing marketing videos for arming…

An Independent Journey — This Profile is an enhanced version of my Remote Working Profile sponsored on Data Driven Investor Cultural Background I was raised in a business in a home, established in 1952 on the coast of Maine. as a complete product development system from design to marketplace. Production started with bags of raw materials…

Another way of seeing it. — I appreciate JJ Pryor’s writing, I am trying to become more motivated to produce an income from my writing because I need it, but the fact of the matter is neither producing an income directly from writing nor going viral are my primary movers for writing. Most of the content…

The Individual, the community. and the institution — What Mumford missed, according to Critchley — Continuing the discussion of Mumford by Peter Critchley, whom Mr, Critchley describes as an early environmentalist and advocate of decentralized regionalism. As it happens my Substack newsletter fits that focus, as you so see as it focuses on my most local of communities but while every community is unique, there…

Mumford’s decentralized regionalism grown from innerman outward. — In my last post, I discussed JT Thomas’s Paper that positions archeology as an interpretive science in search of meaning. Processing Formulating and Manifesting. A History of the Present Moment. History repeats itself, but not exactly, inventing new species and new social paradigmsmackenziana.medium.com Lewis Mumford is one of the greatest thinkers in city planning of the twentieth century. Mumford was popular after World War II, a time when cities were being rebuilt, and…

History repeats itself, but not exactly, inventing new species and new social paradigms — In preparing to formulate a fellowship proposal to write an official history of Andersen Design, I am reading historical research papers. The official story is needed to advance the search for board members for the American Designer Craftsmen Museum but the newsletter is a much more immediate way to communicate…

Is it time for the handcrafted community to join the Great Resignation? — After putting forth a general call to writers to submit a fellowship proposal about Andersen Design‘s story, I am processing applying myself since that is the only certainty in play. In fact, it is the only option in play. Now is the time to focus on the project. The date…