I’ve been fairly scarce lately, both here and everywhere else. I have a good reason — work is reaching a fever pitch as we prepare for CNU XII, where more than 1,300 urbanists from around the world will gather in Chicago to learn about and talk about the state of the art in new urbanism. It’s all very exciting, but it’s all so much work.

I’ll take a week of vacation in Seattle and Vancouver in the first part of July, and then maybe a little more vacation to ride around northern Illinois or to visit Montr�al. Once that’s all done, there will be exciting new projects to tackle at work (on public housing, green building, rating urbanism, street design, and other emerging CNU projects) and on other fronts — canvassing for the Bloomingdale Trail, the string ensemble, the possible housing co-op (which might involve moving back to the south side and thus changing many political allegiances), etc. So it’s good to be busy.