October 2, 2026
A sidewalk is a sidewalk problem. A tree is a tree problem. Stormwater belongs somewhere else. But the person trying to move through a community experiences all of them at once. Pedestrian ecology asks us to stop designing the pieces and start understanding the journey.
September 30, 2026
A municipal budget reveals more than what a town spends. It reveals what the town has learned to recognize—and what can remain difficult for the system to see.
September 30, 2026
A resident using a power wheelchair wants to reach one lovely place beside a creek. Instead of asking how to make an entire forest accessible, the Somerset Healing Bubbler proposes something smaller: start with a destination, study the journey, and experiment from there.
September 30, 2026
Somerset sits between streets and stream valleys, suburb and forest, municipal infrastructure and preserved landscape. A civic history of how geography, planning, accessibility, and everyday movement shape the ways a community learns to share a place.