An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
The video, audio, and transcript of an invited talk about my book Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day that I gave for the Cities@Tufts Lecture Series in October 2020 is now available at Shareable.
The title of this post is the title of a book I’ve written that will be published by Zed Books this summer or early fall in its series on Just Sustainabilities, edited by Julian Agyeman. The book has been almost two […]
Given widespread scholarly and popular interest in smart and sustainable cities, Intercultural Urbanism is pleased to post the following infographic courtesy of Citybase. Comments welcome!
The following essay was solicited and published by the University Denver Newsroom ahead of the university’s 17th annual Diversity Summit held on January 25-26, 2018. It offers a perspective on the summit theme dealing with the overlap between environmental and social […]
This post is inspired by a historic convening of Denver’s last four mayors for a keynote panel discussion at the 2017 Sustainable Denver Summit held on December 5, 2017. The summit’s theme was “Growing Responsibly.” This annual event set new […]
Guest Post by Gracie Rouse Gracie Rouse is a University of Denver undergraduate student who took my course, The Ancient City, in winter quarter 2016. Gracie’s project for that class was on the site of Great Zimbabwe in Africa. Here, […]
One of the great revelations of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) annual conference on “Creating Inclusive Communities” that I wrote about here was learning more about Denver’s rapidly urbanizing neighbor to the east. Given its burgeoning immigrant […]
The annual Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) conference, held on the University of Denver campus since 1992, is the region’s premier gathering of land use and planning professionals. It’s also a terrific opportunity for eggheads like me to learn something […]
The evolution of urban planning has been the subject of several recent museum exhibitions, blog posts, books, and infographics. These representations of planning history are useful for several reasons. They remind us of where we are and how we got […]
New York Times columnists and critics have always figured prominently in my urban studies course reading lists, whether it’s Paul Krugman advocating Old World urbanism, David Brooks explaining American exurbanism, Holland Cotter urging a new role for the 21st century […]
The Biennial of the Americas just kicked off here in Denver. The Biennial was launched in 2010 by then Denver mayor (now Colorado governor) John Hickenlooper as a grand forum for talking about politics, education, business, the arts, and other […]
This week Jeff Selingo writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that location is becoming increasingly important as a factor that can determine a university’s success or failure. He argues that institutions located in cities enjoy a strategic advantage by […]