01.25.10 | 2010 is off to a decent start, if for no other reason than it’s no longer 2009 . . . and hope springs eternal. Of course we have all just had a big wake-up call – not that wake-up calls ever really wake up anyone for long. Nature’s tragedies strike when and where they want as the earth shucks and shuffles and twirls along its trajectories. The recent example of ghastly proportions in Haiti reminds us of the vital importance, and danger, of the built environment and its relationship to our survival, individually and as a species.

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