A contributing editor at Metropolis Magazine and a correspondent for WIRED, he is currently writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet, to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins. His writing about architecture, urbanism, landscape and technology has also appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Architectural Record, BusinessWeek, Slate, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications. He studied English and architecture history at Amherst College, and has an MA in human geography from the University of Toronto.