Philip Langdon

Philip Langdon writes on design and community from New Haven, Connecticut. His most recent book is Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All.

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A good place revisited

Some of Seaside’s leading architects return to a town both blessed and stressed by a crush of visitors.
PHILIP LANGDONMAR. 22, 2018
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How urbanism, density, and spatial enclosure are related

Dhiru Thadani and Matt Bell, along with the CNU-DC Chapter board, orchestrated the recent Council on “Density Without Urbanism/Urbanism Without Density.” They see the event as the beginning of a series of CNU discussions on density and urbanism. “We...
PHILIP LANGDONAPR. 18, 2023
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The ‘Continuous City’ versus the ‘Ruptured City’

Review of Daniel Solomon's book, Housing and the City: Love versus Hope, Schiffer Publishing, 192 pp., $45 hardcover.
PHILIP LANGDONDEC. 4, 2018