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- Two migration tales of strength, hardship, and tenacity
- An out-of-this-world visit to the Very Large Array (VLA)
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Tag Archives: new urbanism
Surviving Clusters of Shotgun Houses
The shotgun house, or shotgun shack is an easily recognizable long and narrow residential dwelling style that was most commonly constructed in the Deep South and along/near the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys in the decades between the end of the … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Africa, architecture, art, cities, culture, density, diversity, economics, geography, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, revitalization, spatial design, Statistics, urban planning, zoning
Tagged architecture, history, housing, missing middle housing, neighborhoods, new urbanism, revitalization, shotgun houses, shotgun shacks, vernacular
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Ten planning lessons from Colorado’s Front Range
Below is my list of ten planning lessons learned from multiple visits to Colorado’s Front Range in the past 18 months. Some are positive, some are not. They are presented in no particular order of preference. Cheers! A large, auto-centric city … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, air travel, airport planning, airports, Alternative transportation, architecture, aviation, bicycling, Cars, cities, commerce, downtown, economic development, entertainment, environment, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, nature, new urbanism, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, Railroads, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, States, sustainability, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, zoning
Tagged airports, biking, cities, Colorado, commuter rail, Denver, Front Range, geography, land use, mountains, new urbanism, planning, spatial design, sprawl, vistas, Wyoming
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New mega-skyscrapers coming to LA and NYC
Just in the past week or so, the designs for two new champion-scale skyscraper projects have been revealed. In Los Angeles, demolition of existing structures is underway, and construction of the tallest building on the West Coast will start soon, … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, cities, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, geography, Housing, land use, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, skylines, spatial design, Statistics, technology, third places, tourism, urban planning, zoning
Tagged architecture, art, cities, design, LA, land use, Los Angeles, new urbanism, New York City, skylines, skyscrapers, tall buildings
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Make-believe downtown doesn’t work in Kentlands
I visited Washington, D.C. over the past weekend to attend a family wedding. While there, four of us spent Saturday evening at Kentlands, a neo-traditional, new urbanist development in Gaithersburg, Maryland. While our dinner at the local Greek restaurant, Vasilis … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, bicycling, cities, coffee shops/cafes, culture, density, diversity, economic development, entertainment, environment, history, land use, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, spatial design, sprawl, transportation, urban planning
Tagged Kentlands, new urbanism, planning, sprawl
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“Dense sprawl” is still sprawl
I support the concept of new urbanism just as much as anyone in the planning profession, but constructing such a project from scratch on greenfield sites is pure bunk. The last thing that planners should be doing is advocating for the equivalent of … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, cities, density, economic development, environment, history, nature, new urbanism, planning
Tagged cities, density, new urbanism, urban planning
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