• Regional Transect of Chicago

    Today I am driving to the Windy City, shown above in a regional Transect—looking east from leafy suburban areas across city neighborhoods to the downtown Loop. I just finished reading and reviewing Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology , and this photo by Robert Elves is included in that...Read more

  • Fitting Florence into an Atlanta interchange

    The image above, by architect Steve Mouzon, shows the entirety of renaissance Florence, Italy, fitting on a site comparable in size to a highway interchange in Atlanta. Renaissance Florence produced Michelangelo and da Vinci. The interchange produced a spaghetti junction. Six of one, half dozen of...Read more

  • Drive-throughs, walk-ups, and Covid

    It's been several years since I first heard transportation guru Walter Kulash say in a transportation reform lecture: “Trying to solve traffic congestion by adding more lanes is like trying to solve the obesity by loosening your belt.” This still rings true today, but with announcement from Taco...Read more

  • New Krier-designed town approved

    Leon Krier, the 74-year-old architect who influenced CNU founders and designed Poundbury, has another major project in Southern England.
    A new town in Southern England, planned by influential urban theorist Leon Krier, has been approved by local authorities. Fawley Waterside, to be built on a large brownfield site of a closed-down power station, will house up to 3,500 people and a million square feet of non-residential uses. Thirty-...Read more