• A good place revisited

    Some of Seaside’s leading architects return to a town both blessed and stressed by a crush of visitors.
    Note: Seaside was influential as a walkable resort town built from scratch, starting in the 1980s. Similar developments were planned and built on the Florida Panhandle in the last three decades. This special report chronicles Seaside's changes from the perspective of early designers and a writer...Read more

  • ‘Urbanizing the suburbs’ goes big

    Suburban Remix, a new book, reports on commercial development of mixed-use, walkable centers as a powerful force in the American landscape.
    “Without damaging a blade of grass on a single lawn” suburbs across North America can transform outmoded shopping centers and office parks “into a new generation of compact, dense, walkable, mixed-use, urban places that accommodate multiple dreams,” writes architect and urban designer David Dixon...Read more

  • Five takeaways from the 2018 World Urban Forum

    Implementing the New Urban Agenda will be hard work—public spaces, including streets, provide the tissue connecting people to the benefits of cities.
    It's been over a year now since all 193 countries of the United Nations adopted by acclamation the "New Urban Agenda," the outcome document of the Habitat III conference held in October 2016. The historic nature of that achievement is hard to over-state: for the first time, we have a world-wide...Read more

  • Towering madness in Portland

    A rebuttal to my friend Rob Steuteville’s recent post.
    Rob Steuteville and I agree on many things, and in a recent post of his, I agreed with most of it – up to the last paragraph. “Although the new towers—linked by a 670-foot-high bridge with a botanical garden—would remake the Portland’s skyline, the towers have similar width and depth to other Pearl...Read more