Photo by Dan Weltsch, winter 2003.
Transparency effect accidental and unexplained.
I'm only occasionally transparent.
Bill Millard
writer, editor, musician

also: New Yorker, Ohioan, American, Earthling, East Villager;
cultural commentator, meme generator, border crosser, multiple-hat-wearer;
citizen, doctor (non-medical), lapsed lit-critter, skeptic, enthusiast, urbanite, corndog

and correspondent: wbm1@columbia.edu

Work

My major project these days is a book called The Vertical and Horizontal Americas: The Built Environment, Cultural Formations, and the Post-Automotive Era. It's on the cultural politics of density and sprawl (that's the short account of it). The Graham Foundation helped it along enormously in 2008 with a research grant. It's moving along in parallel with regular magazine articles. A surprising proportion of it is actually complete.
Résumé (PDF)

Publications (PDF, never quite up to date)

Selected publications appear in, among other places:

the American Institute of Architects' print magazine Oculus (content not available online) and webzine eOculus, including a couple of eO's podcasts;

The Architect's Newspaper;

the UK's architecture magazines icon, the LEAF Review, and the RIBA Journal;

the "News and Perspective" section of the Annals of Emergency Medicine;

Rem Koolhaas/OMA, eds., Content (Köln: Taschen, 2004);

and the College Hill Review, where the Fall 2009 issue includes my piece on how Pynchon's Inherent Vice is about, among other things, architecture and land use. (Sometimes a few of these disparate interests really do overlap.)

Online publications (this list is even further from being up to date)

Work, Musical:

Shanghai Love Motel

Samizdat

Why no blog? and other random questions

Cultural (lit., mus., arch., sci., etc.)

Political (nothing too recent here)

Enthusiasms

Friends' work

A commonplace book

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