Thoughts as I put new urbanism and placemaking on the front page of my hometown Sunday paper.
Identifying Real Place Inferiority
Why natural disasters cancel the trivial problems of places.
By Kristen Jeffers
apartment living/Arts Districts/Food/Issues and Ideas/Sylva/Transportation/Traveling as An Urbanist/What is urban planning?
Becoming A Placeist-The Black Urbanist on its Second Anniversary
After two years of writing this blog, it has come to my attention that I am simply a placeist. Not in the Urban Dictionary manner that sort of has undertones of being a racist or any other -ist that is negative. It’s in the sense that I see benefits in
By Kristen Jeffers
apartment living/Arts Districts/Cities/Food/Greensboro/Issues and Ideas/Politics of Place/Things At a Place/Transportation/What is urban planning?
Finding Happiness in the “Generic” City
So I was looking for jobs about six months ago and I came upon my current position through my network of grad school friends. On paper I knew I had what it takes to get the job. I also knew that this was a job that I could grow into
Actually Being Urban #2- Finding Diversity and Cleaning Clothes At the Laundromat
So your clothes are dirty. The hamper is overflowing. No big deal right? The washer and dryer are in the closet. Or maybe you have to lug them downstairs, but nevertheless, laundry machines are never too far away. Unless you are me and living in Downtown Greensboro, without the rental
Please Excuse My Absence…I’ve Been On a Journey
I had no intention of leaving the blog idle for this long. Yet, occasionally, living the actual life of an urbanist gets in the way of being able to write about it. Yet while away from my urbanist pen, I was able to experience two key events that I think
Actually Being Urban Part 1- Apartment Finding
I’ve been fortunate in the past three weeks to obtain full time employment. What that means is that I finally get to put into practice a lot of the things I preach on this blog and retweet out to others on the social sites. You will also notice a few
