Payton

Enloe HS, NCSU

University of Chicago, Attended - , Class of , Other

building better cities & towns

Billionaires for Bush, Chi Bike Fed, Church of Stop Shopping, Critical Mass, CNU, Sierra Club, Union of Militant Pedestrian Hoodwhackers (UMPH), USGBC, &c.

bicycling, urbanism, architecture, transit, maps, public space, narrow streets, street theater, avoiding the suburbs, sense of place, demography, slow food, green tea, communal gardening, liberal guilt, ecology, car-free travel

Death and Life of Great American Cities, One Market Under God, History of Housing in NYC, AIA guides, Encyclopedia of Chicago, Labyrinths, Paris Spleen, Distinction, Affluent Society, Logic of Sufficiency

Umbrellas of Cherbourg, In the Mood For Love, Les Diables, Triplets of Belleville, Decalogue, Huckabees, still renting French New Wave and old Bollywood

Bach, Debussy, Shostakovich, Aluminum Group, Matt Pond PA, Antlerand, Devotchka, Stars, Clyde Federal, Weakerthans, Nouvelle Vague, Lhasa, Yann Tiersen, Francoiz Breut

television is a vast wasteland, but my evenings feel incomplete without public radio

Well-read, clean cut, disarmingly insouciant, and idealistic to a fault. I've piloted countless conveyances: kayak, pogo, segway, unicycle, even a wheelchair skitching off a bicycle during a downpour, but never a car. Regardless of mode, I brake for pedestrians and pastry shops. Like Lisa Simpson, I am yellow and have a sticker of Lewis Lapham on my binder. Blog: westnorth.com

Architects expert in apartment house types, Andy who'd bicycle across town in the rain to bring me candy, those who know what's doing "after the orgy," cellists with great voices, and anyone curious about the photos' theme. (Since someone actually did ask: the Chicago School[s] of Architecture.) Wanderlustig chums with flexible schedules, for impromptu weekend trips to distant cities.