Year: 2010

(Center City Park, Downtown Greensboro) Enjoy the new site. More features to come!

I hate Facebook games with a passion. However, the blinking lights of a particular one really caught my eye as an aspiring city planner: Cityville. Made by the creators of Farmville, this game takes everything you loved about the farm, crops and all, and brings it to the city. While those of you who prefer… Continue reading Cityville- The Experiment

Wonder what I really think about smart growth?,Enjoy this post, from August of this year, that talks about how I see smart growth evolving to work. Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter on how smart growth has made some neighborhoods flat out unaffordable. I agree, especially in that many smart growth and sustainable… Continue reading On Smart Growth: Attitudes that Need to Die for it to Really Work

I’ve been selected as a rider ambassador for my local commuter transit system. As part of my duties, I’m to utilize some form of transit (bus, carpool or vanpool) twice a week. This is the account of my first ride on the bus on November 24, 2010. 11:49 AM ET I was supposed to do… Continue reading On the Bus Chronicles: Getting My Feet Wet

I’ve read a few of the posts lamenting the loss of urban issues (inner city problems as well as transportation and development issues) as the focus of the Congress and many state and local governments. As we are now almost two weeks past election day, what should we do? 1. Start drumming up support from… Continue reading What Urban Advocates Need to Do in Light of the Election

I am very excited to have the opportunity to serve as a rider ambassador for the Piedmont Regional Transit Authority (PART), our local regional transit authority. What this means is that I will be working in a bus ride twice a week and also volunteering to work at a rider awareness event several times over… Continue reading On the Bus Chronicles: An Introduction

Last night at one of our many grad student gatherings, we were teasing one of the girls for having to drive through the ghetto to get home. I was really cringing on the inside, because I feel like no neighborhood is the ghetto by default. There is rundown housing, drug drops and violent crime everywhere… Continue reading Students Are Not Elitist or Ghetto, Why Do Housing Choices Assume Such

I was riding down the road and noticed a billboard advertising a shoe store. This shoe store used to be on the High Point Rd Corridor but now has moved across town to the Battleground Ave. corridor. Funny thing is, both shopping centers are unsustainable (in environmentalist terms) strip malls, that are at least 25… Continue reading Preaching to the Choir