Philip Langdon
Philip Langdon writes on design and community from New Haven, Connecticut. His most recent book is Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All.
How urbanism, density, and spatial enclosure are related
Dhiru Thadani and Matt Bell, along with the CNU-DC Chapter board, orchestrated the recent Council on “Density Without Urbanism/Urbanism Without Density.” They see the event as the beginning of a series of CNU discussions on density and urbanism. “We...
For cities and streets, 101 salvations
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places shows how to make communities walkable—and better places to live.
The ‘Continuous City’ versus the ‘Ruptured City’
Review of Daniel Solomon's book, Housing and the City: Love versus Hope, Schiffer Publishing, 192 pp., $45 hardcover.