The “Congress of Too Urbanism”?
Recently I worte about how this billionaires' land investment, located more than an hour from the nearest job center, violates the spirit of place. Today ...
There’s Something Inherently Wrong About Turning the Sacramento Delta into Brooklyn
I took the photo at left in November 2024 while traveling on Amtrak near Suisun City, downriver from Rio Vista. The rendering at right shows ...
At Last, Art and Nature Are Coming To Playgrounds
Now that more people are living in higher-density places, these open spaces are more important than ever. It will be interesting to see how long ...
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 ...
Overcoming Siloed Thinking
Affordable housing, TOD, MXD, etc are not separate concepts. Start with walkable/ bikable "place" as a chassis for all of the above. https://www.pps.org/article/toward-place-governance-civic-infrastructure-placemaking
The Future of Interactive
Hear this word and you think of online experiences, but there are great possibilities for taking this into the physical world. Watch the video and ...