Bruce Stephenson

Bruce Stephenson is a professor of Environmental Studies at Rollins College and author of John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner.

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Violent protests mar Portland’s essential blueprint

In the Pearl District, a place designed for human movement and a model of affordable urban renaissance, miscreants with bricks and bats fueled Donald Trump’s incendiary charge that our “inner cities are in crisis.”
BRUCE STEPHENSONNOV. 16, 2016
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Mariemont: A timeless exemplar of town planning

Mariemont was an experiment in the power of new town design to produce a more humane and civic-centered life across the economic spectrum.
BRUCE STEPHENSONMAR. 27, 2024
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The enduring legacy of John Nolen

The early 20th Century urban planning giant was right about St. Petersburg—and he inspired the New Urbanism.
BRUCE STEPHENSONFEB. 25, 2016