Holy Mountain: A Blog about Our Common Life

10th Anniversary Post: One Way or Two?

The authoritarians' war on cities is a war on all of us

10th anniversary post: Cedar Rapids' protected bike lanes experiment

The bottom line is private cars don't scale

Can special events help activate parks?

National Public Housing Museum

10th anniversary post: CR churches

Book review: The Nature of Our Cities

Eight things that make me proud in Cedar Rapids

Post No. 600: Blogging in a World Gone Backwards

CNU Diary 2025: Weekend in New England

Film review: "1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture"

10th anniversary post: Laudato si'

Downtown dreams and reality

Iowa's legislature may never run out of symbolism

Bike to Work Week 2025

10th Anniversary Post: Neighborhood stores

Cedar Rapids Transportation open house

Game review: Bus

10th anniversary post: Improve public transportation

Nature therapy, with homemade syrup

Minneapolis Skyway

Book review: On Tyranny

Subsidiarity, congestion pricing. and books with sex in them

10th anniversary post: Jeff Speck in Cedar Rapids

Book Review: Doing Justice