Philip Bess, in an old two-part essay at Public Discourse (here and here), makes the surprising argument that the proposition “human beings should make walkable mixed-use settlements” ought to be considered a hypothetical tenet of the natural law. While making appropriate qualifications (e.g., Bess does no... bbowman.micro.blog

@bbowman I've been reading Bess too — the collection of pieces in Till We Have Built Jerusalem. He's the only scholar I've come across so far trying to link natural law theory and the built environment.

@bbowman Got my institution's library to purchase it — yes, not many copies around.