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David William Rosales
  • Essays | Urbanism

    The Moment I Saw Through Vance: Housing, Talking Points, and the Great Man Myth

    January 19, 2026January 18, 2026
  • David William Rosales on Amtrak
    Essays

    What’s Your Resolution for Society?

    December 30, 2025December 30, 2025
  • The 5 Books of 2025 That Most Shaped Me
    Essays

    The 5 Books of 2025 That Most Shaped Me

    December 30, 2025December 30, 2025
  • Union Square Bike Lane
    Essays | Urbanism

    Bean Soup and Bike Lanes: Can We Have Nice Things Even If We Don’t All Use Them?

    December 1, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Persuasion

    On Mamdani’s Rise: How The Little Things Won Big

    November 5, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Think Radically, Act Incrementally

    November 2, 2025December 4, 2025
  • What’s Holding Back the Community Garden Movement
    Essays | Sustainability

    What’s Holding Back the Community Garden Movement

    September 21, 2025December 4, 2025
  • What The Young Lords Taught Me About Fighting for Change
    Essays | Persuasion

    What The Young Lords Taught Me About Fighting for Change

    August 11, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Urbanism

    How I Got Involved in Urban Planning Without a Degree (And How You Can Too)

    July 20, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins hardcover
    Essays | Uncategorized

    Sunrise on the Reaping Analysis: Politics, Power, and the Fight to Share the Truth [Spoilers]

    July 11, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Uncategorized

    In Defense of Those Standing Up: On The Los Angeles Protests

    June 13, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Randall's Island Connector
    Essays | Urbanism

    Every Single Thought I Had on a Bike Ride from The Bronx to Brooklyn

    May 23, 2025
  • Adding 1000 Gardens, Land Use, and the Biggest Problem With Car-Dependency
    Essays | Uncategorized

    Adding 1000 Gardens, Land Use, and the Biggest Problem With Car-Dependency

    May 16, 2025December 4, 2025
  • A New Climate Communication Playbook: 5 Strategies to Transform Our Environmental Discourse
    Essays | Sustainability

    A New Climate Communication Playbook: 5 Strategies to Transform Our Environmental Discourse

    March 10, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Open Veins of Latin America
    Essays | Uncategorized

    The Root Cause of Latin American Immigration: 5 Centuries of Pillage

    February 4, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Randalls Island connector
    Essays | Short Writing | Sustainability | Urbanism

    Highways Are Today’s Indoor Smoking

    February 1, 2025December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Persuasion

    3 Questions That Help Me Embrace Disagreement

    December 30, 2024December 29, 2024
  • Essays | Persuasion

    Newsletter: “Freedom,” “Control,” and the Rhetorical Battle For Safer Cities

    November 20, 2024December 4, 2025
  • When Politicians Tell on Themselves: Negative Projection as Propaganda
    Essays | Persuasion | Urbanism

    When Politicians Tell on Themselves: Negative Projection as Propaganda

    October 16, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Urbanism

    Do You Still Believe in Bloodletting? A Lesson From Jane Jacobs

    October 13, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Newsletter: The World Needs You and Me
    Essays

    Newsletter: The World Needs You and Me

    September 15, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Language Learning

    Bilingualism is Like Switch Hitting

    August 3, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Short Writing | Sustainability

    Individual vs Systemic Action to Combat Climate Change

    July 13, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Short Writing

    Transit Shouldn’t Make a Profit

    June 23, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Short Writing | Uncategorized

    The Best Show I Never Saw

    June 21, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Travel | Urbanism

    The Highways Tried to Kill Hartford. But I See Seeds Sprouting.

    June 15, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Sustainability

    Saturdays Are For The Planet

    June 1, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Searching For Catalan In Perpinyà (Perpignan)
    Essays | Language Learning | Travel

    Searching For Catalan In Perpinyà (Perpignan)

    April 19, 2024May 18, 2025
  • Essays

    We Need More Bricks

    April 12, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Short Writing

    Meet Art Halfway

    February 20, 2024December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Uncategorized

    My Top 5 Reads of 2023

    February 2, 2024December 30, 2025
  • David William Rosales on Amtrak
    Essays

    Annoyance, a Virtue

    December 22, 2023December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Travel

    How to Be ‘Rich with Less’ (Why I Got Rid of All My Crap)

    March 31, 2023December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Orwell is a Writer Worth Stealing

    December 21, 2022December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Language Learning

    Learning an Endangered Language: Catalan Immersion and Why Language Diversity Matters

    October 11, 2022December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Reflections on Zafón’s Angel’s Game, Holiday’s Canvas Strategy, and How I Knew I Was Blunting My Creative Soul

    September 5, 2022December 4, 2025
  • L’Eixample: A Tale of Two Barcelonas
    Essays | Travel

    L’Eixample: A Tale of Two Barcelonas

    September 1, 2022December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Language Learning

    How to Learn a Language in 203 Easy Steps (What They Don’t Teach in School)

    June 14, 2022December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Uncategorized

    The Power of Empty Space

    June 2, 2021December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    The Chess Bug: Life Lessons Learned Through Chess

    November 29, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Holden Caulfield Was Emo As Hell

    September 15, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Redefining Emo: Five Years of ‘Life’s Not Out to Get You’

    August 13, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Quarantine Quavers

    June 2, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Essays

    Of Dragons and Dreams: My Battles with Envy

    April 4, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Education | Essays | Uncategorized

    Becoming You: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Education

    January 20, 2020December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Uncategorized

    On Some Emo Meditation Practice

    December 26, 2019December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Health and Fitness

    What I Learned From Devan McConnell

    August 15, 2019December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Language Learning

    How to Conquer Fear: Developing Courage at the Beaches of Barcelona

    July 29, 2019December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Health and Fitness | Uncategorized

    What I Learned Training My Own Hockey Team

    March 17, 2019December 4, 2025
  • Essays | Health and Fitness

    Coaching Middle School Boys

    January 14, 2019December 4, 2025

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