Charles R. Wolfe is a long time writer about urbanism worldwide and an attorney in Seattle focusing on land use and environmental law. He is author of Urbanism Without Effort and Seeing the Better City. 

Blog: 
New Series: In the Urban World, Juxtapositions Matter
Urban Edges and How to Define the Spaces Beyond
Reading Cities, Cover to Cover, And Why
Sustainable Housing, Politics and a Basic Pride of Place
The Human Dimension of Mixed-Use Development
Why the 'Finesse of the Avenue' Is What Cities Need
How to Decode the Place Between Places
How to Place-Decode the Elements of Urbanism
Contrasting Two Models of How Places Survive
The Compelling Promise of Urbanism Without Effort
Using Urban Observation to "Ghost-Bust" Cities
Why My Twitter Stream is Singing about Placemaking
A Visual Tool for Guiding Urban Change
With an "Urban Diary," Everyone's a City Planner