Is the ultimate solution for civic dissatisfaction to leave?
By Kristen Jeffers
Family and Place/Guest Post/Pittsburgh/Politics of Place/Retail/Uncategorized/What is urban planning?
GUEST POST–Rethinking Community Development Efforts: Creating Incentive to Stay or Building Reason to Flee?
Guest blogger Allison Guess uses her personal history and observations of the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh to illustrate the need for more inclusive planning and development.
By Kristen Jeffers
creative placemaking/Family and Place/Greensboro/Politics of Place/What is urban planning?
Reconciling Design and Social Justice in the Place
Design is not just for the developer. Social justice is not just for the downtrodden. Place needs both to be.
By Kristen Jeffers
Cities/Politics of Place/tips for urbanist living/Transportation/What is urban planning?
The Case for a Lazy Urbanism
Urbanism should be second nature, not bound by jargon or complex activities.
By Kristen Jeffers
Cities/Family and Place/Issues and Ideas/Politics of Place/Retail/What is urban planning?
Mixed-Use Ain’t Always Pretty
Let’s not fall into the trap that mixed-use is only a building code or type.
By Kristen Jeffers
Alexandria/Cities/Family and Place/Greensboro/Issues and Ideas/Politics of Place/What is urban planning?
What If The City Doesn’t Want You Anymore?
Cities are experiencing a renaissance in the global conversation. However, one must not forget the sins of cities past and present. What can we do to make sure the city allows all to enjoy and prosper in its borders?
By Kristen Jeffers
Chicago/Cities/Food/Transportation/Traveling as An Urbanist/What is urban planning?
Traveling as an Urbanist: Chicago
Chicago,is the home of the Burnham Plan (one of the first urban plans in the country) and the 1893 World’s Fair. Chicago also invented the skyscraper. Chicago is an example of what you should and shouldn’t do in city government. There are suburban parking lots incorporated into an urban street
By Kristen Jeffers
Cities/Greensboro/Issues and Ideas/Politics of Place/Raleigh/Things At a Place/Transportation/What is urban planning?
My Own Letter to the Nation, In Terms of the State and the City
Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?- “Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” On Election Night, President Barrack Obama earned a second term. Pot and gay marriage are
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
Family and Place/Greensboro/Issues and Ideas/Politics of Place/Transportation/What is urban planning?
What Happens To A Mall Deferred?
Brother Langston’s classic poem “Dream Deferred” is heavy on my mind today. I woke up this morning after dreaming once again that my beloved enclosed mall, the Four Seasons Town Centre, is dying, along with our surrounding neighborhood. The mall had many glory days from the time it opened in
