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Cupid likes it small
How to build Paris in our block.
Jaime J. Izurieta
Feb 10
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Breaking rank and explaining it like to a five year old.
Remember the anxiety you felt in senior year; the defeat you experienced from that rejection letter and your parents’ disappointment in you? You can bl…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Dec 16, 2020
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Wise, welcoming cities are built one storefront at a time
The kindness of the holidays manifests in the quaint scenes of good people wrestling violently over the last discounted 4K TV. In less quaint news, sma…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Nov 25, 2020
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What to write next
I’ve been following Ann Sussman, author of “Cognitive Architecture” for a while. She talks about how the PTSD from World War 1 affected the brains of t…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Nov 17, 2020
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I make ground floors cool.
So small businesses can make more money.
Jaime J. Izurieta
Nov 14, 2020
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Erasing legacies, erasing small biz, erasing ourselves
Imagine having a dream. Now imagine getting to stand before your government to tell them what your dream is about. You leave your soul on…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Oct 16, 2020
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Grief and healing and why I love this country
People dear to me have endured a lot just to have the privilege of living in this country. They are survivors, not just of a dangerous…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Sep 4, 2020
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On Fixing Teeth And Finding One’s Place
My wife and I finished packing our bags and put our beautiful apartment in Quito, Ecuador up for rent in September of 2016. We…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Aug 15, 2020
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Ten rules for successful storefront design
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Jaime J. Izurieta
Jul 23, 2020
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Want to help Small Businesses? Stop talking about stimulus and start talking about converge…
Our economy runs on small businesses. The recovery process will involve the movilization of their entire ecosystem, from downtown property…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Jul 21, 2020
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4 Steps To Better Architectural Education
Architecture took the subjective opinions of a few and made them into facts. That makes Architecture a pseudoscience. Nikos Salingaros…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Jul 20, 2020
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Time To Build
Institutions are in certain decline. The Media is a collection of egos given to spectacle and preying on blood, catastrophe and scandal to…
Jaime J. Izurieta
Jul 19, 2020
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