July 31, 2026 · 9 min read
My Breakthrough Salary Is Someone Else's Peanuts
What happens when the income that means rescue in one life becomes merely adequate in the expensive city where the opportunity exists?
HAAM Notes / Topic
Cities
6 notes follow this idea through the HAAM archive.
July 25, 2026 · 10 min read
A Good Building Can Still Make a Bad City
New developments can contain competent buildings and still produce weak streets, disconnected routes, dead ground floors, and places that do not add up to a city.
July 25, 2026 · 10 min read
The City Had to Invent the Sheep Again
I kept photographing animals at the edge of European cities. Geneva treated sheep as ecological infrastructure, Viimsi preserved them as heritage, Portugal barely explained its horse, and Tartu now presents an old relationship as urban innovation.
July 13, 2026 · 12 min read
The City Is a Matchmaker
How walkability, transit, third places, safety, and repeated encounters shape who gets to meet, date, and build a relationship.
July 12, 2026 · 10 min read
The City Is an Interface
How streets, public services, data, culture, and infrastructure turn urban planning into an everyday experience.
July 11, 2026 · 11 min read
The Biggest Stories in the World Are Not Always in English
What words such as jeonse, akiya, turistificación, pedestrian hell, and xiancheng reveal about the systems global media leaves out.