• Educated young adults drive less

    Note: I hope to see you all at CNU 26.Savannah next week. The mid-20s to mid-30s are peak driving years in a person's life. Eyesight and reactions are undiminished, and you have places to go, things to do, and careers and families to pursue. Educated, high-earning young adults have money for cars...Read more

  • Suburban segregation by income

    Note: Andres Duany will present core principles of the New Urbanism on May 16 at CNU 26.Savannah . This image from Andres Duany's standard lecture that he gave from the late 1980s to early 2000s illustrates how society is sliced in segments through conventional suburban design. Duany's lecture was...Read more

  • The ‘Jacobs Curve’ and gentrification

    While gentrification is sometimes villainized, the "Jacob's Curve" suggests that there is an optimum level of reinvestment in neighborhoods that creates more diversity of place. The drawing, by planner and researcher Michael Mehaffy, is named after Jane Jacobs, who argued for revitalization in ways...Read more

  • Top-hat buildings

    While bemoaning another proposed flat-roofed box fronting on a new urban park in Charlotte, my city, I took a look at Central Park, Manhattan, on Google Maps 3-D and found all sorts of interesting, distinct yet similar, hats to buildings. These buildings were partly the creation of architectural...Read more