Publications
I write to connect with others, to clarify my thoughts and feelings, and to make sense of the world.
My writing can be intensely personal as well as pragmatically professional; I hope you find something that strikes a chord, that makes you laugh, and that encourages you think about something in your own life in a new way.
My articles, including writings from my 2023 road trip, can be found on my Once in a Blue Car blog page. While teaching at MIT, I wrote about our communities, arts and culture, and the forces that shape our world. You can access some of those works below.
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
- Mary Oliver
Selected Publications
“The Day His Car Became Mine,”
Hagerty Drivers Club Magazine, Issue 84,
March-April 2024.
For a longer version of this article, see Susan’s blog article “The Journey.”
“The Common Thread” RSA Journal,
Royal Society for Art. Fall Journal 2015.
Susan Silberberg explores how placemaking can put heritage in the hands of the community.
“Access Denied: How security is transforming public space,” in The Conversation,
November 17, 2014.
Selected as Aspen Institute Top 10 Ideas for the Day. Susan Silberberg describes the effects of Post-9/11 security decisions on public space.
“Places in the Making: How placemaking builds places and community,” MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Whitepaper sponsored by Southwest Airlines, 2013.
Susan Silberberg led the research and authorship of this seminal whitepaper on the status and impacts of placemaking in communities across the United States. You can download paper here.
“Pretext Securitization of Boston’s Public Realm after 9/11: Motives, actors and a role for planners,” in Policing Cities: Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World, Randy Lippert and Kevin Walby, editors. Routledge, 2013.
Susan Silberberg distills the findings of research that show the varied and sometimes random reasons for changes in public space after 9/11
" …a raw, honest,
brave retelling of a heartbreaking moment, of love and loss intertwined"
Sylvia K.
"Just read your article in Hagerty Drivers Club and have tears in my eyes"
Bill B.
"Everything in your blog works, the photographic images mesh so well with the visual images in your writing"
Andrew R.
"Fellow Porsche driver, immediately pulled in after reading a couple of your musings. Fahr vorsichtig!"
Rod S.
