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- Ten planning lessons from Maharishi Vedic City
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- Cities and towns that have gone to the dogs: Ruff-ruff!
- Timeless Portraits of the Oklahoma Panhandle
- Cities with a lengthy formal, original, or ceremonial name
- Applying facets of Vastu Shastra to address climate change
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- A single sidewalk can make a huge difference
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- 15 years after the tornado – Planning lessons from Greensburg, Kansas
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Tag Archives: real estate
Is there a student housing bubble and is it about to burst?
For many collegiate cities and towns across the United States, the steady influx of international students (and often with their families), from primarily China/Asia, have lifted the local real estate markets out of the post-2008 doldrums. The concern now becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, cities, colleges, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, education, geography, globalization, Housing, humanity, immigration, land use, marketing, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, Statistics, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Asia, China, cities, colleges, education, housing, housing bubble, land use, planning, real estate, residential, student housing, students, universities, zoning
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Your community is a retirement haven when…
A little more satirical fun. Your community is a retirement haven when… Gray hair is considered way cool. Golf courses exceed parks. Prune juice is the best-selling soft drink. It’s retail economy depends on the sale of Depends. Everyone has … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, ageism, cities, commerce, Cuisine, culture, economic development, entertainment, fitness, Food, fun, geography, health, Health care, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, satire, spatial design, technology, transportation, urban planning, zoning
Tagged aging, bonds, cities, Depends, fun, geography, Geritol, investing, planning, real estate, retirement, satire, transportation
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Take your zoning verification request and…
Literally the bane of almost every planner I know, zoning verification requests (or letters) are a lender’s way to cover their ass by expecting planners and planning departments to drop everything they are doing at a moment’s notice and grind … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, environment, government, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, planning, product design, revitalization, Statistics, urban planning, writing, zoning
Tagged commercial, industrial, land use, planning, property sales, real estate, residential, writing, zoning, zoning verifications
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Have lending institutions usurped good planning?
How many of my fellow planners have seen/heard of the following scenario in recent years? A rezoning is sought because a potential homeowner cannot obtain or refinance a home loan because the residence is zoned something other than residential. My educated guess is that many of you … Continue reading
Posted in cities, civics, commerce, consumerism, economics, Economy, education, land use, marketing, planning, politics, spatial design, Trade, urban planning, zoning
Tagged homes, land use, master plan, nonconforming uses, planning, real estate, residential, urban planning, zoning
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Highest and best use is an archaic concept
While writing my prior blog post regarding John Steinbeck’s thoughts on urban America, I began pondering the concept of “highest and best use.” It is a term that is so often thrown around by realtors, assessors, appraisers, and even planners. I imagine … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Cities, civics, civility, consumerism, culture, density, deregulation, diversity, economic development, economics, Economy, entrepreneurship, government, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, politics, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, urban planning, zoning
Tagged cities, development, land use, real estate, sprawl, urban planning
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This Could Be the Start of Something Good
Recently released data from the Census Bureau indicates after 35 years of increasing average new single-family house size, there has been slight, yet noticeable drop in the average new house size in each of the past four years. It is … Continue reading
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