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What I’m reading,
July/August 2025:

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Our Zapruder Memories

July 30, 2025
Tags: Texas, history, film, sacred space, jfk, city, preservation

The Heart of Dallas

July 30, 2025
Tags: Texas, landscape, history, icon, jfk, city

New Cities on YouTube

December 22, 2024
Tags: city, Saudi Arabia, design, YouTube, placed thoughts, place, Internet

The Hollowed Center

December 17, 2024
Tags: cairo, view, city, Egypt

The Mosaic Program

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, public art, mosaic, middle east, pyramid, syria

That Cairo Tower

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, skyscraper, city, Cold War

Greetings from Cairo

December 16, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, postcards, design

Building the Empty Crescent

December 15, 2024
Tags: ancient Egypt, river, palace, city, archeology

City of the Sun

December 15, 2024
Tags: ancient Egypt, city, religion, archeology

The Blue Squiggly Nile

December 11, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, map, desert, city

Universal Arches and Pandas

December 07, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, mall, fast-food, modernity

Tech Elsewhere

December 02, 2024
Tags: seattle, Egypt, technology, city

Abandoning the Nile

December 01, 2024
Tags: cairo, Egypt, river, development, city

Surveying Modern Cairo

November 20, 2024
Tags: cairo, map, city, museum, railway

Cairo and the Nile

November 19, 2024
Tags: cairo, river, city, colonialism
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