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Merry Christmas!

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

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Cityville- The Experiment

ShareI 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 [...]

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On Smart Growth: Attitudes that Need to Die for it to Really Work

ShareWonder 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 [...]

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The Case for a Lazy Urbanism

Urbanism should be second nature, not bound by jargon or complex activities.

Development Types Are Not an Euphemism for Race

ShareDuring a conversation at the recent Streetsblog training in Kansas City, I mentioned again the story of why the site [...]

Transit + Roof + Food + Education + Job + Proximity + Sense of Place = Good Life. A Broken Equation?

It shoudln’t be, but sadly, in many cities, it is.

Guest Post: Yes, A City Can and Should Have It All.

Graham Sheridan, masters candidate in public administration at Brown University, takes my civic-infereiorty complex to task and demands that a city can and should have it all.

Why Do Southerners Go Crazy Over Snow?

Because it happens just enough to both enchant us and drive us crazy.

Mixed-Use Ain’t Always Pretty

Let’s not fall into the trap that mixed-use is only a building code or type.