Let’s Build Housing Under Freeway Ramps
Walking in Portland this week, I was struck by how much vacant land there is under the I-405 freeway immediately adjacent to the Pearl District, ...
Where CNU and Strong Towns Should Have Met: Greenville, SC
I just drove down here, and I've seen more cool urban "stuff" in one hour here than I saw in two days in Charlotte. It ...
The “Star-is-Born” Crossed Trajectories of New Urbanism and the Strong Towns Movement
They have the same passions and are singing the same love song- about cities. They even held their national meetings in the same conference hotel ...
Charlotte’s Brutal Corporate Urbanism
By deposits, Charlotte NC is the country's second-largest banking center, and it shows in the way downtown has developed, both in the scale of the ...
Why Downtown Charlotte Fails as a Place
Charlotte residents may not know it, but when in 1998 their hometown Nations Bank bought and moved California-based Bank of America (originally the Bank of ...
The Difference Between A “Smart City” And A Dumb City Is Not Technology But The Way It’s Manages Traffic Today
Saturday I sat in traffic in Seattle with the traffic backed up miles in both directions while the express lanes remained closed. Opening those lanes ...
For The Fogo Inn, A Community-Based Venture In Newfoundland
Note that this shows how much of the spending "sticks" locally.
Will The Loss of Confidence In The Future of Downtown LA Stop Its Recovery?
What happens to downtown Los Angeles matters to the rest of us. With 40 million square feet and more than 300,00 workers, downtown Los Angeles ...
A “My Cousin Vinny” Approach to Filling Buildings With New Industry
The Marisa Tomei character in this has to prove she's much more than an aspiring hairdresser. She rattles off her automotive expertise, which includes not ...
Only One Northern City Is In Top Ten For Attracting College Graduates
The "Upshot", an arm of the New York Times, used census data to look at where college graduates are moving among 41 metro areas. Notably, ...