About Connecting Climates
Welcome to Connecting Climates.
Connecting Climates bridges different climates — political, ecological, and otherwise — from my vantage point as an American abroad in Berlin. Often times, it’s less about making connections as illuminating them; our world is filled with surprising interconnections and reciprocity.
All of us are tinkering with how to navigate a world where international norms, climates, and uncertainties evolve faster than we can comprehend. This newsletter is an experiment in deeper engagement via writing consistently and publicly. It’s my best attempt of how we meet the political moment, and redirect energies towards — rather than away from — connection. Beyond that, especially for Americans abroad right now, it’s crucial we lean into community and check in how we’re all doing.
It’s also a chance to have some fun and share more about me. I’ve put some guardrails around that with a few sections towards the end of each newsletter, for now. Let’s see where this goes!
About me
I’m Tim Lazaroff, an urbanist, writer, and crisis governance researcher fascinated with cities, futures, and politics.
Back in my native New York and in Philly, where I studied Urban Studies and Management at Penn, I worked across multiple vantage points of U.S. politics and researched New York’s transit management during the ‘Summer of Hell’. I relocated to Berlin, intentionally for a Master in Urban Management and unintentionally for COVID-19. I researched uncertainty in public school reopening processes and happily planted (e mangiato) some roots.
These days, I work at an international city network, pen urban governance op-eds (most recently to Streetsblog NYC), and volunteer with the New York-based Effective Transit Alliance. I’m on the road pretty frequently and always on the hunt for amazing street food, both of which you’ll read about here.
Keeping up with CC
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