2 Dec 2008: I have been processing information on Kabul for my dissertation. Here I am posting some of my data online for Afghan planners to use for further analysis. Here is the paper written by Ahmad Javid Habib, one of my students at Kabul University.

2007 Kabul journal
From April to November 2007 I was Kabul for my dissertation fieldwork thanks to the World Bank Institute, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the al-Falah Foundation through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. I will try to post an image-rich journal for the duration of my visit.

June 2006 visit to Kabul including commentary. I also have background documents of my initial involvement with Afghanistan. Since 2003 I have also been a member of Afghan Friends Network based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Online medical information for Afghan Physicians

Five Cities in Four Weeks (postings begin on 22 July 2007)
After teaching in Kabul during the spring of 2007, I am taking a one-month vacation to see various cities, present a paper at the conference of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), and spend time with my family. Now that I have internet access again, I will begin to post photos and commentary on Istanbul, Sarajevo, Naples, Venice, and London. For the moment most of these pages are blank placeholders.

My geography pages include maps which are copylefted for educational use.

Copylefting means they are free to use for personal and educational purposes, but not or profit. Please credit me when and where appropriate, but please make use of them! Many are specifically designed to be printed in black and white on letter-sized paper.

Here I briefly introduce Linux and free/open-source software (FOSS), and here is an intro to low-cost Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Urban Studies, including a Study of urban origins at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. (1993)

Audio files of the Peripheries conference at UC Berkeley, February 5-7, 2009.