Urbanism

Introducing: Random Acts of Urbanism

Brigitte Pellerin

Sep 1, 2024 — 1 min read

Ah, Paris. Et la mousse au chocolat en plus.

Because I travel lots and never not have a camera with me, I decided to start collecting great examples of people-friendly places and tell their stories. I opted to make it a different website because a) it’s more narrowly focused than this one and b) my hope is to recruit other contributors and I don’t want to have them feel like they have to endorse all my opinions.

The introductory post is here. Those of you who are subscribers to this website have automatically been added to the other (and paid subscribers here receive a complimentary premium subscription there). If this much urbanism isn’t your cup of tea, please feel free to unsubscribe from Random Acts of Urbanism, I promise not to feel bad about it.

Hoping you’ll join me, read and share those stories. This is intended to be a fun and inspiring journey of happy places for happy people. And yes, my regular posts here will continue unabated. Thank you as always for your ongoing support. Love you all.

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