
A new zine in the next few weeks, called Dude, Where’s My Duplex? It’s a small but mighty zine, packed with stories, architecture, city zoning, and missing middle housing, written as a city tour, because the zine is based on an actual walking tour that Roxanne and I attended. We collaborated with two of our favorite collaborators to create this zine: Natalie Heneghan of Habitat for Humanity and Jenny DeRocher, an archivist at the La Crosse Public Library. They are doing wonderful, important work here in La Crosse, and we at Ope! want to extend the reach of that work as far as possible. We hope you love the zine, of course, and we hope you share it around, because we so want our cities–La Crosse in particular, but beyond as well–to reimagine their potentials. We recommend you read this one out in your city: at the library, at a coffee shop, at a restaurant, at a park, and then look around, notice houses, apartments, duplexes–all the things that make a city a city. In the words of Jane Jacobs, esteemed author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.