This is a work in progress designed to increase the speed of human reaction. To dive right in, the Abstract Submission Request Form awaits. If not I recommend going first to a personal source drawn from this “weblog” or others as you might recommend on the subject of the global urban crisis. Therefore, the need to focus on small, specialized activity is dispositive.

The code for catalytic change recognizes overlap that involves specific places and times. First, please scan through the contents below, know they change regularly, get edited, removed, re-written and made better or worse, and media-injected randomly. Some will have dead links to content in our rapidly changing digital world. The “preface” link explains the area of focus for reportage. The “participation link” is if you care to share. We will go first, see a random selection of posts (here), tags are (here), a chronology (here), and a timeline back to 50 or so posts (here).
Transformation


Beautifully
Lys & Diaspar
- Food Density
- Water
- Smooth Surfaces (D = M/VT)
- The Wilderness
- Confronting the Dim World
- The Urban Idyll
- Living Mechanisms – The Spatial Data
- Quantum Density – Consider Smallness
- Summary of Priorities
- Endnotes
Cognitive Density

Perfect
- Three Curves – Sigmoid, Pareto and Laffer
- Water, water everywhere…
- Pay Now or Pay Later?
- Water Knowledge
- Endnotes
Wild Urban Federalism
- Pedestrian Pockets
- Regional Cities
- Common Ground Strategy
- Open Space States
- Dense Urban States
- Zero Impact Fallacies
- Endnotes

The Big City
- Transit Measures
- Futuremode
- Long Odds on Renewables
- PUMAs
- Household Density Measures
- Scorched and Soaked Earth
- Endnotes
Performance
- Measures
- A Thought Experiment
- Post-Westphalian Density
- Oregon and Maryland
- Portland and Vancouver
- New York and New York City
- Endnotes
Imperfect
- NIMBY YIMBY
- Undoing the Central Park Strategy
- Finding Courage, Incentive, and Subsidy
- Going Once, Going Twice
- New Package Old Process
- Endnotes
Fragmentation
- Compaction
- Fragmentation
- Urbanizing Density
- Transitless
- Metabolic Compactness
- Containment Advocates
- Endnotes
Density Priorities
Finding Not Fixing
Prosperity
- Why Again?. 1
- Instant Density. 5
- Make Density Competitive. 7
- Slippery Oil Density. 12
- Carbon Density. 14
- Secure Urban Compaction vs. Fragmentation. 15
V. Local, Global and Back
- Rosling and Romer are Not Alone. 3
- Elevator to Space. 5
- One Grain of Rice. 16
- The Physics and Biology of Density. 18
- Changing the Direction of Sprawl 18
- Density as Pleasure. 22
- Density as Form.. 24
- Education Density. 25
- Backstops and Plugs. 29
- Power Density. 38
- Illusions of TOD Progress. 45
- The Free Land Problem.. 53
- Tipping Points and Outliers. 63
- Trends. 68