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The Place Papers, Notes & Field Dispatches

We curate writings, case studies, and field reports from cities being transformed by time, care, and imagination.

Rethinking Leadership: Connecting Leadership & Place

What if true leadership begins not with grand ideas, but with a deep commitment to the specific place you call home?

Beauty from Brokenness: The Theology of Place and the Redemptive Imagination of the Marsh Collective

In a forgotten town and a failing marriage, beauty began to rise—not through strategy, but surrender. What if real estate could be redemptive?

The Slow Miracle of Bramble: Odunayo Aliu and the Architecture of Hope

It all began with a boy named Dada, a toilet cleaner's grandson with big questions and no school.

Of Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building and Ethnography

How one note, one place, and one architectural philosophy converged to shape a deeply rooted praxis of transformation in Ogbomoso — where delight, design, and ethnography now meet.

The Architecture of Belonging

Form near—collapse to rooted purpose, this story explores how Ogbomoso became more than a city—it became home.

Stewards of Memory

In an age of digital excess and cultural amnesia, this is a call to the sacred work of remembering — to hold stories,places, and people with reverence,and to steward memory not as nostalgia, but as resistance, identity and hope.

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