The Follies of Mammon

The mirror of terraforming is “xenoforming” — think here of the “red weed” mentioned in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, making the Earth alien-like, or of the strangeness from the Southern Reach Trilogy. Gentrification is like xenoforming. It isn’t some extraterrestrial force though, no little green men are showing up to pry off the old house numbers and put up the addresses rendered in metal Neutraface, the official font of gentrification.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMay 26, 2021Capitaliforming, Gentrification, Urbanism, Capitalism, anticapitalism, Five-over-ones, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, A Burglar's Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh, morality, CyberpunkComment

What Did You Think Was Going To Happen?

The country is on fire.

Commentary, Kansas City, Odd Columns, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJune 1, 2020Justice for George Floyd, Covid-19, America, Politics, Urbanism, Current EventsComment

Compasses of Justice: Notes on Mesopolitical Geography

The East-West issue has always seemed to be one of the most important ones. For a long time I was a delivery driver – first I was a legal courier and then I delivered pizzas – so I’ve been all over, and I learned all the streets of this city a deeper, more granular level than most people, and I began to notice something.