Kathleen Vandenberg

Senior Lecturer, Boston University

Kathleen Vandenberg is a senior lecturer in rhetoric at Boston University. She is interested in urban design, visual rhetoric/advertising, interdisciplinary/experiential learning, style pedagogies, Joan Didion, and the essay.

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Written by Kathleen Vandenberg

A woman on her phone waits to cross a London street near a red bus and a white taxi.

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Cities

City on mute

When you stare at your phone or use Uber to navigate your neighbourhood, you flatten the rich texture of urban life

Kathleen Vandenberg