Out & About

Jonathan Smulian is a descendant of a family that left Lithuania in the 1880s and emigrated to the Cape Colony in South Africa. He is retired after 60 years of practice as an international city and regional planner and architect. He has lived in many cities in 12 countries and has worked in 26 countries In Africa, Europe, the Middle and Far East, the Caribbean and Central and South America. He was born in South Africa and has three nationalities having emigrated to the UK and later to the USA .He is a graduate of the Universities of Cape Town and Liverpool. He is the author of hundreds of published reports, articles and commentaries on urban development and architecture and more recently his short stories. essays and poems have been published in a number of literary and online journals in the USA. He has experienced wars, earthquakes, hurricanes and uprisings in many parts of the world and travelled extensively for both work and pleasure. After living in a new town in Virginia and in the forest in Vermont he now lives with his artist wife in an historic 19C bungalow in Houston Texas where in the days of a pandemic he spends his time enjoying life and writing and illustrating his work.