Unnerved in the City

Thoughts on unchosen human encounters

A couple of weeks ago, I took a preliminary trip to Frederick, Maryland, a city of roughly 70,000 about 50 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. I met up with, as I described her in this post, “my friend and built-environment explorer partner-in-crime” Rachel Taylor, who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland and shares my professional interest in urbanism.…