RECENT ARTICLES – 2016
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The Great Lakes city needs clear direction in building and revitalization, and the new Unified Development Ordinance can provide it.
After all the twists and turns and unexpected events of 2016, I’m ending this year the exact same way I started it: full of hope and gratitude.
The transportation engineering toolbox is missing key tools when it comes to traditional cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
There is no compelling reason to build a five-mile freeway through the east side of the city, according to engineer Ian Lockwood. A boulevard would do the job better.
The good news: The highway will be improved. The bad news: The boulevard idea is officially dead.
Trees should be planted either in swales (on primarily residentail streets) or in tree wells (on Main Streets). Do not listen to “urban foresters,” who insist that trees must be planted in landscape beds large enough for their mature drip lines.
Three kinds of urban places curve toward transit and walkability.
Urbanism will play a key role in a choice between an “age of human capital” and an age of depletion and division.
A "new analytic framework" by the Urban Land Institute ignores walkability and sets back our understanding of cities and suburbs.
The Mercado District takes its urban design and architecture cues from Tucson's historic adobe neighborhoods.