About This Site
This website was created by Zach with a focus on urban issues (policy, community planning, design, architecture, and finance), documentation, and photography.
Please note that all of the information contained on this site are my own and do not represent the views any of my past, present, or future employers.
Until a powerpoint presentation can be whipped up, here are a couple bullet points to explain this site and its purpose:
- This site - An Affair with Urban Policy - started in 2000.
- The site originated from a suggestion that it might be helpful for graduate students to build a "professional" website as a means to share completed work and projects with prospective employers (e.g. your paper-based resume would list links to papers and projects that could be downloaded by potential employers).
- In school I was concerned that the daily grind of the real world of work would crush any remaining enthusiasm and optimism so I formed a three-pronged strategy to stay active and engaged.
- The prongs were (1) work at places that are engaging/stimulating, (2) find activities outside of work to be engaged in relevant projects, and (3) continue to write, as much as possible.
- The blog portion of An Affair with Urban Policy is intended to address prong #3.
- The name of the site is partly an inside joke and partly refers to a passage from the book The Fountainhead.
Really misc. information about the author:
- You can view my photos here.
- The first website I ever published with the Alpha Kappa Delta website for the University of WI's undergraduate sociology department (well, it had to be before 1997). It no longer exists.
- I have also created websites for the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, the Value of Citizen Work project, the Calhoun Area Residents Action Group, the Milano Graduate School, and the Community Development Research Center.
None of these sites exist either.
There's probably a fair lesson to be learned there. Don't get too attached to design because it always changes.
- I'm a co-founder of the Stevens Square Center for the Arts. SSCA's success is in its development as a cooperative-run organization with many dedicated and creative volunteers.
- I can be contacted by email here.