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I’m under the influence of…

  • Peak Fashion, 1968

  • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, 1962

  • “Hack the Planet!”, Hackers, 1995

  • 6-time Wimbledon Champion Suzanne Lenglen, circa 1919-1925

  • Indie Rock, 1947-1957

  • Green Metropolis

  • A history of cities, 4,000 BC —today

  • Amphion builds the city of Thebes by charming the stones with his golden lyre.

  • Left-of-the-dial, late night electronica, 2020 —present

  • Edith Wharton's Manhattan

  • Rooftops of the world, unite.

    Rooftops of the world, unite.

  • Late 1920s Ghost Pop

  • Political Cairo, 1940s

  • Decks & mixer

  • King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, 1976

  • WTA Tennis and the World No. 1, Daffy Saby

  • Learning to play my favorite songs on piano

  • The Circle of Fifths

  • Flaneur

  • Pre-code plebeians such as Hilda Vaughn, 1933

  • I’m a bee murmuring by the hour in foxglove bells.

  • Parking Maximums & Market Rate Fees.

  • Nightspace live at Kremwerk, 2018

  • Tinker 1965, All You Protest Kids

  • Legalize apartments.

  • Diane Nash, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1960

  • Sidewalk Activity Report

  • Neuromancer, 1984

  • 19th Century Manchester Chartists

  • Pedestrian Rights

  • Louise Gluck

  • Urchin Chic: Low-Dive Jenny, Flash Toby Crack It, Betty Doxy

  • Sissy Jupe

  • Shirley Jackson, 1951

  • Go Vegan, Minimalist Baker, Vegan Democracy

  • Sound Transit Retail Integration Memo, 2021

  • The Occult Issue, October 1968

  • The Iranian Students, 1979

  • “Atomic. Your hair is beautiful. Tonight.”

  • Human scale infrastructure.

  • Billie Holiday dethrones Athena on July 2, 1935

  • Sappho, Teenage Poet Laureate, 630 BC

  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8 CE

  • Jane Jacobs, 1961

  • A King’s Road boutique called Bazaar.

  • Congestion Pricing

  • “Rush your money to the record shops…”

  • Smart-Aleck Kill

  • Not enough apartments allowed

  • Gloom Room-a-Go-Go, 1966

  • Dylan Thomas, Teenage Poet Laureate

  • D.C. Metro

  • The Mixolydian Mode

  • Death Metal posters in the city.

  • Transit Oriented City, 15-minute City

  • Ann of Oxford Street

  • Why moody teenagers love Emily Dickinson

  • Feminism, 1966

  • All the young gods

  • London Calypso, 1950s

  • The Time Space Continuum, 1951

  • Frank O’Hara

  • aBstRact R&B, 2011 —present

  • Sylvia Plath, Teenage Poet Laureate, 1952, Smith College

  • Ravi Shankar’s first U.S. release, 1959

  • “Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too!”

  • My first Prompt

  • 1960s Blue Beat & Ska

  • New Lots Ave., Snediker Ave., Malta St

  • Brian Eno, Music for Films, 1978

  • Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959

  • Federico Garcia Lorca, Teenage Poet Laureate

  • Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album, 1995

  • Teenage Poet Laureate, W.B. Yeats

  • My house plants

  • Camden Market practice space, 1976