Karrie Jacobs

The Itinerant Urbanist

A blog about cities, buildings, and the spaces in-between.

The Perfect $100,000 House

A trip across America and back in pursuit of a place to call home.

@KarrieUrbanist

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What I'm Reading

Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of CzechoslovakiaMariusz Szczygiel

Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart ReaderEdited by Josiah McElheny and Christine Burgin

The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of DesignLars Spuybroek

The Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the MachineLewis Mumford

The Bone Clocks: A NovelDavid Mitchell

Contact

@KarrieUrbanist
itinerant.urbanist [at] gmail.com

Blog Archives

2022

January 9 The One Time I Wrote About The Rocket
January 3 Welcome to 2022

2021

September 11 Thoughts on looking out my bedroom window on 9/11/2021
June 29 The New Heatherwick Object

2020

July 7 Regarding Mount Rushmore
May 18 Mount St. Helens, Ronald Reagan, and the Existential Dread
May 11 The Things I Wrote for Curbed
April 30 Party City
April 4 The Purim Principle
January 2 The Great 2020s Blogging Revival Starts Here

2017

January 26 Regarding Refugees
January 19 Prospect Park on the Day Before the Inauguration

2016

April 1 Zaha Hadid: A Memory
March 2 The Building is Just a Building

2015

February 26 Before There Were Emoji, There Was Paul Rand
January 14 Regarding Manmade Nature

2014

September 24 Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same
May 15 Where I’ve Been and What I’ve Been Doing

2013

September 11 9-11-13
June 27 The Metropolis Project, Part III
June 21 The Metropolis Project, Part II
June 20 The Metropolis Project, Part I
May 22 The Fabrication Fair
April 11 Against Homogeneity
February 5 Bill Moggridge, California, and the Passage of Time
January 8 Goodbye Ada Louise

2012

2011

October 18 Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished At Least One Thing
October 17 What I Didn’t Say About the Future
September 26 Somewhat Still, Definitely Not Silent
September 11 9-11-11
September 9 Notes on Reality
August 9 Regarding Doug Garofalo
July 29 Emoticon Nation
July 21 The Perfect $150,000 House
May 4 The Airport Critic
April 28 Barbara Kruger Hits the Road
April 8 Q. What Does Frank Gehry Have in Common with Robert Scarano?
April 7 Detroit, Part III
April 5 Detroit, Part II
April 4 Detroit, Part I
March 17 Bye Bye Kitty?
March 16 Greetings from Soho
January 20 Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice.
January 12 Cheap Symbolism
January 10 A Moment of Silence
January 6 It’s a)2011 or b)1973 (choose one)

2010

December 14 How to Win Friends and Influence Canadians
December 13 Regarding Austin
December 9 Homily
December 4 Murder in Utopia
November 4 Notes on Beauty
September 22 Sign of the Times
September 15 What I Saw in Chelsea (and points south)
August 30 Adjacent to Hallowed Ground
August 4 Tales of the Fun Forest
July 21 Drinking in Public
June 18 From the Department of Oxymorons
June 14 The End of An Era
June 2 Before There Was Bloomberg, There Was Lindsay
May 27 The Decline of Western Civilization, Ctd.
May 19 Notes on Cuteness
May 13 The Brown Decades
May 11 An Homage to Rob Forbes
April 20 An Ode to Stanley Greenberg
April 14 M.I.A.
January 27 Just saying…
January 18 Regarding Haiti
January 8 How These Things Happen
January 4 The More Things Change…

2009

November 29 Dubaious
November 11 The Interstate Thing
September 11 Nice Renderings.
July 2 Trust
June 5 Welcome to Normative
May 19 Zeitgeist '09
May 15 From the Extraordinary to the Ordinary, Part 1*
March 31 San Francisco at the End of the First Decade of the 21st Century
March 26 Architecture for Chickens
February 12 The Perfect $20,000 House Scrapbook
February 2 Oh. Dear. Lord.
January 28 Winter Tidbits
January 22 Infrastructure: My Two Cents
January 16 Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Administration…
January 12 Yesterday's Tomorrows Today

2008

December 31 Coney Island vs. DUMBO
December 23 Shanghai Scrapbook
December 11 Hong Kong Leftovers
December 1 Life is a Soft Target
November 15 The Year of the O
November 8 Giant Leaps
November 6 Politics, Big and Small
October 17 Brooklyn is America.
September 23 The Mysteries of Times Square, Part III
September 16 Still More Bunnies
September 14 "She scares the bejeebers out of me…"***
September 12 Dear Barack Obama:
September 9 Only the Bunnies Know…
September 5 The Protuberance
September 2 Sprawlgate
September 1 Watching Gustav
June 20 The Mysteries of Times Square, Part II
June 18 Less Than Zero?
June 12 All Steeple, No Church
June 9 The Ikeans Have Landed!
June 5 The State of the World
May 24 Borough of Dreams
May 19 Sunday Afternoon at Javits
May 12 The Most Beautiful Room in New York
May 11 Alexis de Tocqueville Was Here
April 20 Orwell in Coney Island
April 8 House of Panter
April 1 The Ledner Legacy
March 28 If You Don't Build It, They Won't Come
March 27 The Railyard Blues?
March 21 Oh, Brooklyn…
March 18 What Would Jane Jacobs Do in Dubai?
March 7 Greetings from Qatar
February 21 I Am Having a Post-Post-Modern Morning
February 6 The Perfect $100,000 Meme
February 1 The Passport Rant
January 29 Ghost Bikes
January 20 Time Travel
January 9 Sleepy Bear is Everywhere
January 3 The Mysteries of Times Square
January 1 What's on the Horizon?

2007

December 27 A Thought for Boxing Day (posted a day late)
December 21 Do Hurricanes Have Aftershocks?
November 30 The New New
November 27 The Perfect $80 House?
November 24 Macy's Goes Meta
November 19 Hudson Yards Redux
November 12 Hello 1973
November 8 Six Flags Over Coney?
November 7 Pot Calling Kettle…
November 6 Home again.
June 20 Just Plugging Away
May 18 Public Speaking, Public Reading, Public Thinking Out Loud
April 17 The Itinerant Urbanist is Moving!!!
March 31 Department of Ancient Mysteries
March 24 Plug-o-Gram
March 15 Thursday Morning Tidbits
March 10 The Art of Expressing Anger
March 3 Type Styles of the Rich & Famous
February 23 Triumph of the Weenies!!!
February 8 The Itinerant Urbanist drives around Boston
February 5 Via Ask.com
February 2 Robert Moses Week in New York
January 23 I Get Comments…
January 21 Sunday Night Tidbits
January 19 The Weather Again.
January 6 The False Spring
January 2 The New Architecture of the Gulf Coast

2006

December 24 A White Xmas in Brooklyn.
December 2 Good News, Bad News
November 17 The Friday Morning Wrap-Up
November 8 The Itinerant Urbanist Comments on the Election
November 6 The Itinerant Urbanist looks for the 21st Century
October 16 My Googleganger Writes!!!
October 13 The Itinerant Urbanist visits Kansas City
September 30 It's Like Dorothy Said…
September 11 9-11-06
September 7 Lookee! Lookee!
August 31 Brooklyn calling.
August 22 Only the Developers Know Brooklyn.
August 17 The Itinerant Urbanist is, well, itinerant…
August 1 My Googleganger