#ForewordFriday: All About the Little Things
By Meghan Bartels / On September 19th, 2014
ForewordFriday: People Shaping Cities Shaping People Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On August 1st, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Better Together Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On June 6th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Multifamily Livability Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 25th, 2014
#Foreword Friday: How to Green your City Edition
By Admin / On November 15th, 2013
This week's selection comes from The Guide to Greening Cities. Rich in tools, insights, and tricks of the trade, The Guide to Greening Cities helps professionals, policymakers, community leaders, and students understand which approaches have worked and why and demonstrates multidisciplinary solutions for creating healthy, just, and green communities.
#Foreword Friday: Big City Edition
By Jason Leppig / On October 11th, 2013
This week, join New York City's Chief Urban Designer, Alexandros Washburn, as he rides out Hurricane Sandy from his apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Contrasting Two Models of How Places Survive
By Charles R. Wolfe / On October 11th, 2013
Two September experiences reminded me of the strength and fragility of urban places, and the inherent ironies of surviving town forms. One such experience was here, at home, while preparing for a keynote address in New Hampshire scheduled for later this month. The other was on the road in southern France.
Reid Ewing on How Better Traffic Models Can Lead to More Mixed-Use Development
By Admin / On June 14th, 2013
Reid Ewing, author of the forthcoming book, Measuring Urban Design, talks to Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog.
Here’s another obscure but significant obstacle to building walkable places in America: the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ shoddy traffic generation models for mixed-use development.
The Compelling Promise of Urbanism Without Effort
By Charles R. Wolfe / On May 13th, 2013
As urban stakeholders -- residents, pundits, developers, associated professionals, and politicians -- we like to discuss and debate aspects of urbanism and how cities should change to meet new challenges. But when we talk about urbanism, I think we often forget the underlying dynamics that are as old as cities themselves. As a result, we favor fads over the indigenous underpinnings of urban settlement and personal observation of urban change.