Howard Blackson
Howard M. Blackson III, is an Urban Designer, author, lecturer, and aficionado of neighborhoods. He dabbled in the City of San Diego's Civic Innovation Lab for Bill Fulton; Directed Planning for PlaceMakers; Partnered with Chong | Partners and Stantec Architecture under Rick Drake, and has thoroughly valued every minute he has spent with Michael J. Stepner FAIA, FAICP, Geoff Dyer, Andres Duany, and the late Leon Krier.
The 5 'Cs' of community planning
Complete, compact, connected, complex, and convivial describes everything that you want a neighborhood to be.
Two simple SoCal housing solutions
Beach density and climate action zones offer a proven, two-tier approach to fitting housing comfortably within our current lifestyle.
Objective design standards are form-based codes
The state of California is responding to the nation’s second highest housing costs (behind only Hawaii) with regulatory reforms that promote form-based codes along transit lines and commercial corridors.