The Collected Journalism and Dispatches

Longform cultural narratives and historical excavations examining civil infrastructure, institutional memory, and postwar urban development.

The Quiet Demolition of Memory

The Paper Trail of the Delta

An Anatomy of Public Housing

A seven-thousand-word inquiry into municipal archives in Detroit, tracing how bureaucratic rezoning maps erased thirty city blocks without public debate.

Investigating fifty years of legal deeds, unrecorded levees, and land ownership disputes across two hundred miles of the lower Mississippi floodplains.

Field reporting from three postwar social housing developments, documenting tenant preservation coalitions challenging private redevelopment tenders.

Twelve Chapters in the Field

A serialized audio documentary tracking oral histories through forgotten industrial river corridors. Every tape combines unvarnished archival audio with on-site acoustic recordings.

Produced alongside local historians and sound preservationists, the series avoids studio narration in favor of direct environmental testimony and primary source tape.

Notebook Entries and Marginalia

Short monthly dispatches, raw research transcriptions, and reading notes compiled while drafting forthcoming print monographs.

Notes on Port Authority Blueprints

A Ledger from the Salt Mines

The Rhetoric of Highway Hearings

Examining three linen architectural drawings from 1954 reveals structural revisions hidden from the final civic engineering oversight hearings.

Transcribing freight waybills kept by Great Lakes cargo crews during the cold winter freeze of 1971, where paper logs survived digital loss.

Reading through eight hundred pages of unindexed stenographer records from upstate New York highway hearings held between 1962 and 1968.

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