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Naples
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Retired Counsel, Coalition for Healthcare Communication. Health policy wonk, recovering journalist, lover of the Chesapeake Bay
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Losing Friends to the American Dream: Homeownership

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By John Kamp
| Common Edge
When the pandemic ended and people were freer to move about, a lot of what people around us did was literally move. In fact, everyone in our social bubble fled the coop and bought a house. I remember returning from a visit to a friend’s new house, stepping back into our 350-square-foot fourplex apartment, and—for one of the first times in recent memory—thinking, Are we doing something wrong? A question notable to me only because up until that point, I had thought our setup was pretty good.
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The Overlooked Charms and Underappreciated Glories of “Flyover Country”

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By John Kamp
| Common Edge
In the early days of my work together with James Rojas, our clients were mainly in large coastal cities. Some of this had to do with our starting point, Los Angeles. We had the most professional and social connections there, and the secondary connections we made were linked to that city. However, when our book Dream Play Build came out in 2022, that client landscape expanded and changed.
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Raving Amid the Ruins

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By John Kamp
| Common Edge
In the early 1990s, many American cities had a bombed-out quality, with my ever-thriving hometown of Minneapolis barely an exception. After decades of disinvestment, these urban areas were plagued by crime and filled with surface parking lots and other artifacts that testified to the chosen destruction of what had once been fine-grained urban form. But they were also cheap and full of people making things: music, art, culture, mischief.
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