Next Issues

If you've been a reader it should be pretty obvious by now that 05401 is capable of contextualizing virtually anything - text and photographs, form and content - into the thematic concern of the moment. The next issue of 05401 will confront Winds of Change : crises and alternative strategies in local governance, energy, architecture and planning, economics, civil liberties and social policy from a realistic, utopian perspective.

Other issues certainly remain pressing , especially the conflict between the imperatives of development, the appropriateness of development and the rhetoric of sustainability. And, here in Burlington, we have the luxury of wondering what a progressive synthesis of these conflicting interests might be, and whether and how it might be put into practice in defiance of national and global trends in economics, politics and the apparent commercialization of everything.

None of this means that we won't continue to explore our favorite topics : architecture, planning, food and sex. Au contraire !

If any of these themes stimulate you to contribute essays, criticsm, poetry, drawings, photography (we can publish photographic documentation of mixed media) please contact us, e-mail us a draft or a finsihed work. We will respond !

Each issue of 05401 will continue to document the urban scene : triumphs and debacles. I try to tell the truth, as I see it, without gratuitous violence and without condescension. I urge you to do the same.

05401 will continue to explore a perennial concern : development of the waterfront.