CELEBRATING MORE THAN 550,000 READERS

MORE THAN HALF A MILLION UNIQUE VISITS TO THIS BLOG

Thanks to readers around the world who have followed this blog for more than a decade.

Cumulatively, its content could fill the pages of five full-length books.

Topics focus on urban design, planning, architecture and transportation – most often in the context of creating a better built environment for people with disabilities.

Sometimes my fine art photography, which is earning places in respected galleries, is featured. Or there might just be a travel pic, cat foto or joke shared.

In the past 12 months, I have posted news of my work (and excerpts of my published work), including:

1 School of architecture guest lecture

2 Acclaimed photography exhibits

3 PBS documentaries on camera

4 TV appearances as an expert

5 Keynote speeches

6 Photos from the road during international consulting

7 Global radio broadcasts

8 Universal design workshops

9  New design inclusion clients

10 Daily social media posts on design and DEI

11 Podcasts on planning

12 Published cover articles

MORE THAN 400,000 READERS!

I LOVE SHARING MY WORDS AND IMAGES 

WHILE WE PURSUE HAPPINESS

This month, my blog passed more than 400,000 unique visitors.

It has been around for nearly a decade.

I try to post daily.

Nearly 4,000 blog posts have been published here.

More than 3,000 original images – from across the United States, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia have been shared here.

I have posted collaborations created for the National Association of REALTORS, United Spinal Association, Wood Communications, Global Disability Inclusion, Barlington Group, Equitable Cities, Curtis + Rogers Design and many other partners.

About half of my posts have to do with Universal Design and advocacy for people with disabilities.

Many share best practices for urban design, town planning, architecture, transit, mobility and related placemaking.

Stay tuned, we will be well over 400,000 readers before the year is out.

CELEBRATING MORE THAN 350,000 READERS

 IN LESS THAN A DECADE, THERE HAVE BEEN MORE                                 THAN 350K UNIQUE VISITORS TO THIS BLOG 

We usually observe blog milestones by recounting the disability advocacy essays and town planning articles shared on the site.

The cumulative amount of text on this blog would fill nearly four average-length books.

But today, we want to celebrate the visual storytelling.

When we were required to take a photography course in journalism school, we were almost offended – because we always thought we would earn our daily bread via the printed word.

Fast forward to digital photography, then smart phones with amazing lenses.

And we are storytelling with images as much or more than words.

When we teach at the graduate school level and a major university, we show images of the good, bad and ugly of Universal Design – so students can understand how to create an inclusive built environment.

Sometimes, we simply write about a place we’ve been, a hotel or apartment that was great about hosting us.

These images are from Lisbon Portugal.

We always wanted to get there, but 40 years of adulthood slipped by with the great, hilly city rising from Rio Tejo escaped us till this month.

Now we dream of narrow alleys, azulejo-adorned facades, great seafood, excellent wine, kind people, 300 days of sunshine and Mediterranean climate less hostile than Miami’s global warming and sea level rise-imperiled climate.

CELEBRATING MORE THAN 3,500 BLOG POSTS

COVERING PLANNING, URBAN DESIGN, MOBILITY, TRAVEL, PHOTOGRAPHY, ADVOCACY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND MORE

This blog started a decade ago.

Social media was big, but not nearly as big as it is now.

We might not even have owned a modern smart phone when we first started marrying images to words within a template on Blogger.

We have had more than 333,333 unique visitors to these pages.

We have gotten to share advocacy writing on planning, urban design and mobility from Planning Magazine, On Common Ground Magazine, Strong Towns, CNU Public Square and the Miami New Times to name a few.

We have shared disability-positive profiles and research stories from United Spinal, New Mobility, Designs 4 Living and a host of online publications.

In 2022, we have posted links to more than a half dozen podcast appearances.

We’ve also posted live from key speeches given to packed audiences at the American Planning Association National Conference in San Diego and the International Making Cities Livable event in Paris.

Each year, we post more than 400 high quality urbanism photos taken from our extensive travels to promote Universal Design.

L’APPART: THE DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS OF MAKING MY PARIS HOME

DAVID LEBOVITZ’S LATEST BOOK IS A MUST-READ                                (EVEN IF YOU SKIP OVER RECIPES SHARED AT CHAPTER ENDS)

L’Appart has plenty of details, often told in sardonic humor, about life, food, culture, cost and rules of living in the culinary capital.

But it mainly focuses on the never-ending setbacks experienced by a results-oriented American in a city whose laws seem designed specifically to delay closing the deal on buying that perfect apartment…

…then going through endless torture with untrustworthy and (it turns out) incompetent contractors.

We live in Miami, so evil...careless...corrupt...disappearing contractors are actually considered the good ones!

Many here exist only in a circle of hell below corrupt/incompetent.

So we feel Lebovitz’s pain while he endures strings of five figure costs for perpetually delayed, always shoddy work worth less than four figures when the dust clears.

Will our hero live, sans nervous breakdown, to see the completion of his dream Paris kitchen in an apartment that he will own?

Find out at

https://www.amazon.com/LAppart-Delights-Disasters-Making-Paris/dp/0804188408/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&linkCode=sl1&tag=davidleboviswebs&linkId=76c7bc04325a5c6cae423c22cbec67b7&language=en_US

L’APPART: THE DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS OF MAKING MY PARIS HOME

DAVID LEBOVITZ’S LATEST BOOK IS A MUST-READ                                (EVEN IF YOU SKIP OVER RECIPES SHARED AT CHAPTER ENDS)

The author’s DavidLebovitz.com blog shared recipes, as one would expect a cookbook author to do, but it gained popularity has he also shared matter of fact tales of everyday life in a beautiful city that can be rather unforgiving in etiquette, tradition and red tape.

L’Appart (busy Paris contraction for The Apartment) comes with the bonus of recipes from an expert chef who has been featured in: Bon Appétit, Chocolatier, Food+Wine, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, People, Saveur and USA Today.

But for those of us who enjoy memoir over a countertop of bowls, mixers and dozens of ingredients -- it's easy to skip over, or speed read them.

My fingers were eagerly flipping pages to keep up with his perfect blend of storytelling spiced/spiked with details about peculiarities of Paris, French bureaucracy and contractors.

L’APPART: THE DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS OF MAKING MY PARIS HOME

DAVID LEBOVITZ’S LATEST BOOK IS A MUST-READ                                (EVEN IF YOU SKIP OVER RECIPES SHARED AT CHAPTER ENDS)

I have just completed L'appart and commend Chef/Blogger/Cookbook Author/ExPat in Paris David Lebovitz for his ease with the language and ability to to season trying tales with good humor.

To me, the kitchen only is a place to store, refrigerate, freeze and re-heat stuff.

So the having recipes part of the book scared me away from buying it for a half year.

Lebovitz began working in restaurants at the age of sixteen and ended up at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, working with the famed Alice Waters and co-owner, Executive Pastry Chef Lindsey Shere, who he credits as his pastry mentor.

He moved to Paris in 1999 and started an early blog to coincide with the release of his first book, Room for Dessert. 

90,000 UNIQUE VISITORS TO THIS SITE

BY APRIL 15 INCOME TAX DAY, MY BLOG WILL HAVE BEEN READ BY 100,000

When I launched this blog about five years ago, I didn't know how I was going to make more than a couple posts per month.

Now, with well more than 1,000 posts on travel, disability advocacy and urban design, readers from nearly 100 nations have visited.

As of today, more than 90,000 different people have visited.

I couldn't have done it without some help from my friends.

#1 in my life for 30 years is Heidi Johnson-Wright, my bride.

I have mirror posted dozens of her EarthBound TomBoy blogs here.

EarthBound TomBoy explores the delights, distractions and difficulties of life as a wheelchair user in a world filled with roadblocks and ridiculousness. If you have a disability or love someone who happens to be disabled, EBTB feels your joy and your pain. Check out EBTB and you'll understand why going through life in an upright position is highly overrated.

http://earthboundtomboy.blogspot.com/

I also owe a lot of gratitude to PlusUrbia Design, which pays me to write about urban and architectural design.

Check out their new website at: www.plusurbia.com

I tweet. Check out @stevewright64

Steve4156 in my instagram.  Don't look for it yet, I've published far too few images from the road.

I also try to post short and essay-length marketing communications tips and updates on my LinkedIn account.

My Facebook is probably the only account that does not forward a bunch of silly cartoons or comment on my desire that my favorite spots team wins the big game coming up.

 Artist at work in Philadelphia's historic Eastern State Penitentiary, now a tourist attraction