Book Review: New Slow City – Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City

This book review was written for The Refugee & Immigrant Fund in January 2015 and originally appeared on their blog, Growing Together. In recent years, the concept of living “Slow” has been gaining ground, in many ways a natural response to the ever increasing hyper-connectivity and competitiveness of our modern world. Slow food, slow travel, …

“That’s a park?!” Sparking dialogue through urban interventions

A couple of months ago, NYCGo launched the See Your City campaign aimed at getting New Yorkers to check out local places they might not otherwise travel to -- Van Cortlandt Park and Arthur Ave. in the Bronx, St. George in the forgotten borough of Staten Island, Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, and others. Naturally I …