The repair manual prescribes pathways to consumer-dom or citizenship, scripting and scoring our evolving relationship to material things.
Shannon Mattern in Places Journal. Step by Step
Thinking through and beyond the repair manual
This is the fourth article in the series “Repair Manual.”
This essay is beautifully written, but it requires some time to read and to consider it. Throughout the essay quotations from it are placed in text boxes. It only takes a few minutesto read them. They give an excellent preview to the essay.











