‘First Cities’ Published!
I’m happy to announce that the book is available to freely access online and download until April 17, 2024. The link is here. The print version costs $22.00.
Sustainability
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New Book: ‘First Cities’ and Planning Lessons for the 21st Century
The 22-month hiatus between our last post and this one is explained by many interruptions: required updating of the courses I teach in subject areas where knowledge accumulates at a very rapid rate, unusually heavy university committee work, and collaborative […]
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Book Talk Available Online
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.
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Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day
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 […]
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Checklist for a Sustainable Smart City
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!
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Expanding Thought About Cities, Sustainability, and Social Justice
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 […]
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Wrestling with Growth, Equity, and Sustainability
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 […]
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Archaeology, Ancient Urbanism, and Cultural Heritage in Peru
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, […]
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Aurora Rising
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 […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities: Notes From a Conference
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 […]
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The Evolution of Green Urbanism
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 […]
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Mr. Kimmelman’s Metropolis
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 […]