I might have joked about DWR, but if you do love design you’ll understand why Design Within Reach has met with such success. DWR makes good, thoughtful design easy to find — mostly in furniture, but founder Rob Forbes also writes a weekly newsletter that makes remarkably good reading (if you’re into this sort of thing). While the topics are often product focused, he often covers urban design topics as well — see these articles on Cinque Terre, and transit design in Portland and San Francisco.



