From Better Cities and Towns If you live in a walkable neighborhood, you know the value of a neighborhood main street as the place to grab a cup of coffee, meet up with a friend, or — if you are as lucky as I am — buy produce...
Read MoreFrom DC Streetsblog: So, how did Washington, D.C. — widely perceived as one of the most expensive cities in the country — end up topping a “most affordable” housing list? First and most importantly, adjust for average...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: I am fortunate to have befriended, one way or another, some people who are very good at the business of thinking about, designing, and building good communities. While many of them are architects and...
Read MoreFrom Education Week: What do we do on Monday morning is the perennial question that arises after attending a conference where heady ideas are discussed in an atmosphere of urgency and expectation. The question certainly was on...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: Susan Weiler, FASLA, OLIN, successfully made the case that “public art is important,” at a session on art and landscape architecture at the 2012 ASLA Annual Meeting. In a review that ran from the early...
Read MoreFrom Fast Company: Imagine you’re a community organizer in Detroit. You want to convert an abandoned lot into a community garden, and to back up your case, you plan a local survey of families who might use it. You...
Read MoreFrom Architectural Record: New Life For the American City Today one-third of the U.S. population lives in central cities, the highest proportion since 1950. How are urban centers responding to growth, and how do they find...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities, by Richard Florida: Economists and urbanists have long argued that density plays a key role in innovation and economic growth. As important as it is, density is a tough thing to measure. Metros come in...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Architecture, the most public of endeavours, is practised by people who inhabit a smugly hermetic milieu which is cultish. If this sounds far-fetched just consider the way initiates of this cult describe...
Read MoreFrom Vancouver Sun: What do we do when a stable community resists change because there’s nothing for residents to gain from accepting change? How does a community with serious housing affordability challenges contend with...
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