The Space Between: How Cities Manage Change at their Edges
The Space Between is concerned with moments where planning becomes less certain, not because the stakes are unclear, but because the framework itself grows thin.
The pages that follow stay close to practice. They move through familiar places—just beyond main streets, near transit, at the edges of long-stable areas—without treating those locations as problems to be solved or templates to be applied. Instead, they linger on how decisions are made when expectations are incomplete and judgment is asked to do more than it can comfortably carry.
This book is not organized around prescriptions. It does not offer a sequence of reforms or a catalogue of tools. It proceeds by accumulation, returning to similar conditions from different angles and allowing patterns to emerge over time.
Readers may move through it continuously or selectively. What matters most is not agreement with its conclusions, but attentiveness to the places and moments it asks us to notice more carefully.