The Suburban Workshop And The Urban Hotel

COVID turned the question where we live and where we work upside down. Now we work at home and "live" in business districts that used to be exclusively devoted to work.

Urbanists love downtowns, even if suburbanites often don’t. To an urbanist, a downtown is the walkable, historic, beating heart of a community. In the words of my longtime friend Rick Cole, who’s about to take office as a councilmember for the second time in Pasadena, downtown is “everybody’s second neighborhood”.

But the truth of the matter is that many…