Last week, I boarded a buss with 51 other restless and talented urbanists on a 3 day, 2 night tour…
The best loved places, are filled with permission giving activities. This bottom up approach to placemaking and urbanism, starts at the smallest increment of development.
Conventional development codes use acres and feet as the measurement for all performance standards. However, urban development is required to be measured at a much smaller increment. Urban development requires a finer grain approach where every little inch counts.
I am in search for my Urbanist Tribe. For the past few months, my urbanist friends seem to have lost…
There are only a few urban design texts that are truly timeless. Recently, I was asked for a recommendation for…
Through the restless search for Urbanism, there are moments that highlight the lost art of urban design. North Adams, Massachusetts,…
Like many of you, I was very upset with EPA decision to leave Downtown Kansas City for the suburbs. I…
Believe it or not, there are many angry urbanists out there. You in fact may be one yourself. These are…
Much of my professional work would be labeled as New Traditional. Through out the architectural and planning design process, I…
Everyone relies on the city and all of the public services that it contains. If we have concluded rightly, from…