Missing Middle Housing
Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis By Daniel Parolek Reviewed by Richard K. Rein Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Other times a thousand words can paint a picture. Both ways work in this timely new book, Missing Middle Housing. The picture is actually a diagram showing detached […]
DIY City
The Collective Power of Small Actions By Hank Dittmar Reviewed by Richard K. Rein If you have been pleasantly surprised by some of the makeshift outdoor dining areas fashioned during the height the Covid-19 pandemic, and if you wonder what other, similar – yet hitherto not yet considered — improvements could be made to your […]
Becoming Philadelphia
How an Old American City Made Itself New Again By Inga Saffron Reviewed by Richard K. Rein Designing a building and writing a column about the building “are more alike than meets the eye,” says Inga Saffron, the architecture critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer. She makes the point in a new collection of 80 […]