Habitats & Humans

Habitats & Humans is a Substack-based publication by urbanist, entrepreneur and public speaker Barrie Barton. A free monthly subscription newsletter and 20 annual pay-walled essays, Habitats & Humans exists because where we are shapes who we are.

By Barrie Barton

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Time, Place, Opportunity

Observations on the doing of doing.

Jun 8•Barrie Barton

Psycho-geography

Move towards the light.

Apr 28•Barrie Barton

Earth Writing

Words without thoughts seldom to heaven go.

Mar 30•Barrie Barton

The Adult Burden of Making it Real

Part One: Lush Dreams. Harsh Truths.

Oct 15, 2024•Barrie Barton

Note to Self

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Dec 10, 2025•Barrie Barton

From Emptiness to Activist and Back Again

The dildo of global consequences seldom arrives lubed.

Feb 22•Barrie Barton

COOL & FOOL – 2026 Edition

Global pessimism, local optimism and other guesses at the next year

Feb 3•Barrie Barton

Hiding Places

The necessity and impossibility of being unseen

Nov 26, 2025•Barrie Barton

Something Old, Something New

The meaning of My Grandfather's Axe

Oct 20, 2025•Barrie Barton

Human Chips

Are we the user or the used?

Sep 21, 2025•Barrie Barton

Zombies the Size of a City (2.0)

Why there is no good reason for standing still... unless you are old and rich

Sep 7, 2025•Barrie Barton

Exceptionally Average

What supermodels teach us about places.

Jul 23, 2025•Barrie Barton

Logical Rocks

Humans make habitat. There is no shame in that.

Jul 10, 2025•Barrie Barton

Wicked Choices

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

Jun 12, 2025•Barrie Barton