As a preservation student with a perpetually dwindling bank account, I've become something of an expert at uncovering historical treasures that don't come with tourist-trap price tags. Edinburgh—with...
You know that feeling when you've been staring at architectural preservation textbooks for so long that your brain starts to resemble the crumbling facades you're studying? That was me last month. Wit...
When I ditched my urban planning career to pursue historical preservation (a decision my Québécois father still questions at every family dinner), I never imagined my student budget constraints would...
There's something about standing on the banks of the Niger River in Mopti, watching wooden pinasses glide through the morning mist, that makes you forget you're a perpetually broke grad student with a...
When most travelers think of Uganda, images of mountain gorillas and safari adventures immediately come to mind. But after spending a week in Entebbe on what my university colleagues mockingly called...
When I told my fellow preservation students I was spending two weeks in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, their reactions ranged from concerned to outright alarmed. *You're going where? During winter break?...