• Affordable, alternative, and family-friendly urban lifestyles

    Urban living with kids, part two: Creative living arrangements offer urban lifestyle options for families with children.
    In a previous post , I discussed how affordable urban living for millennial families with children is poised to become one of the largest market demands in the near future. Moreover, as these urban millennials with kids get priced out of the major metropolitan cities, they are now beginning to...Read more

  • How countryside becomes sprawl in four steps

    So many rural places have been incrementally destroyed by rural sprawl. You see it on the outskirts of metro areas and off of Interstates and other highways from coast to coast. Most communities don't see it happening until it is too late. To help explain this incremental erosion of rural land, I...Read more

  • Why we code

    Andres Duany offers more than 20 reasons why urban design coding is necessary—and he hopes that someday it will no longer be needed.
    Within the last half-century, some 30 million buildings have degraded cities and reduced landscapes. Must we tolerate this comprehensive disaster in exchange for the, perhaps, three thousand great buildings that great architects have produced? Such a win-loss ratio is as unacceptable in...Read more

  • Affordability, millennials, and the next Baby Boom

    Urban living with kids, part one: Attainable urban housing for millennial families with children is poised to become one of the largest market demands in the near future.
    My interest in this issue came from my husband’s and my own struggle in dealing with it. Like many young adults of our millennial generation, my husband and I spent the decade after graduating college living and working in some of the major metropolitan cities in the US and abroad – cities like...Read more