I mentioned in a prior post that I do a fair amount of walking and I no longer have my car now that I’m in DC. I wanted to break that down and help folks getting started here without a car to understand how car-free life works. This is very D.C. specific, but I used… Continue reading How I Get Around the DC Metro Without A Car (And You Can Too!)
Month: October 2016
Why All the Development in the World Doesn’t Matter if You Don’t Know Your Soul
Politico has written some great longreads recently on cities in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and Southern Virginia. So good, they have helped me refine and shape my urban theory. Namely, they’ve helped me be at peace with just being an urban theorist and influencing the world in that way. Before I went to Roanoke, one… Continue reading Why All the Development in the World Doesn’t Matter if You Don’t Know Your Soul
The Real Answer to Why I Moved, for the Second Time in 18 Months, to DC.
People have been asking me why I moved. I’ve given them answers and sometimes they’ve not been as foolproof as I’d liked for them to be. And now a month out from the move, I feel like I can answer the question a bit better. “But you can buy a cheaper house here. Food’s really… Continue reading The Real Answer to Why I Moved, for the Second Time in 18 Months, to DC.
The One Key Reason Those Scary Housing Discrimination Maps Are Still True
The night before I wrote this post, I got a present. The present was that the National Geographic website dropped some of the HELOC residential security maps, commonly known in the profession as the redlining maps, into an article, highlighting the amazing work done by the Mapping Inequality Project. If you haven’t already, go to that… Continue reading The One Key Reason Those Scary Housing Discrimination Maps Are Still True
On The Blog at its Sixth Birthday: Reflections on Its Purpose and My Growing Business and Passions
Hey folks! I’ve just gotten in from a conference day where I’ve been encouraged to make a leap into another step in my business and it just so happens on another Friday night like this in October, six years ago, I made another major leap and put The Black Urbanist out into the world. Quite… Continue reading On The Blog at its Sixth Birthday: Reflections on Its Purpose and My Growing Business and Passions
On the Second Presidential Debate of 2016 and Knowing Your Truth About Where You Live
I wanted to discuss a comment about cities that came up in the debate/ town hall last night. Note, this is not a post endorsing one or the other, although I’ll say that I’m with her. But the issue brought up is one that trips up a lot of people when it comes to talking… Continue reading On the Second Presidential Debate of 2016 and Knowing Your Truth About Where You Live