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Land is Political
PlaceMatters, a nonprofit that developed from the Orton Family Foundation, recently published Bridging the Divide Between Science and Planning: Lessons From Ecosystem-Based Planning Approaches to Local...
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Shrinking a City is Not Easy
An interesting post in Streetsblog reveals that Youngstown, Ohio is finding it hard to shrink. Almost a decade ago (was it that long ago?), Youngstown received national attention for admitting to...
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Utopia’s Not Working Anymore
When a community’s best hope for site redevelopment is a Kwik Trip. News from the Twin Cities. This relates to a prior post on the land use effects of a weak economy. The American landscape is...
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Sprawl Warriors Unsure Enemy Is Dead
Search online for “sprawl is dead” or “end of sprawl,” and, not surprisingly I think, you’ll find a lot of articles and blog posts (e.g., How History Killed the Suburb and Beyond the Requiem for...
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Design for Resilience – The Case of Flood Mitigation
What do you do when historical data is no longer useful for predicting the future? Climate change is making the already-difficult proposition of predicting environmental phenomena even harder. Consider...
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Green Economy in the Hudson Valley?
One of the most popular stories today in the New York Times is about the “Brooklynization” of Hudson River towns. Even with the weak national economy, or perhaps because of it, New Yorkers are seeking...
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Sprawl Watch More Than 1/2 Century Old
The Atlantic Cities and the Landscape + Urbanism blog note the release of this 1959 video as part of the Urban Land Institute‘s 75th anniversary. It seems that everyone is surprised by different things...
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Lisa Schweitzer, Transportation, and the Schweeb
Just ran across Urban Ethics and Theory, the blog of my friend and former colleague, Lisa Schweitzer. Brilliant, quick-witted, no BS, Lisa is just as I remember. Add her blog to your reading list, if...
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Denise Scott Brown on Urban Planning
Earlier this month, the Pritzker Prize jury declined to retroactively include architect Denise Scott Brown in the 1991 award given to her husband and design partner, Robert Venturi. The jury’s action...
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A Body Blow to U.S. Land Use Planning
Given that the United States once set global precedents for environmental protection and physical planning, it is hard to grasp just how far we have fallen. The U.S. Supreme Court, though, has now made...
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