On the Ground. Observations from Harvard

Why are there so many dogs in downtown? Does commuting make you fat? Can government sell your house to a developer? Will the arts save your city? In ‘On the Ground: Observations from Harvard,’ writer and journalist Tracy Metz investigates these and many other topical issues on land use and planning as practiced in the US. ‘On the Ground’ is a selection of the columns, essays and interviews Metz wrote for various venues in the Netherlands while a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Many of the twenty pieces in her book revolve around larger themes such as local vs. global and public vs. private.