An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
It was an honor to participate in the recent Intercultural Place-Making Seminar sponsored by The Council of Europe’s Intercultural Cities Programme and held at the Palazzo Badoer, Università IUAV di Venezia. The seminar’s central organizing question was how urban planning […]
The 20th annual Congress for the New Urbanism recently wrapped up in West Palm Beach, Florida. I’ve never been to the Congress—and I didn’t attend this one—but I’m always interested in what transpires. A few summary reports by attendees provide […]
I came across this video by Joerg Niggli while checking in on Kaid Benfield’s blog, who had come across it while checking in on The Urbanophile. It’s called “Venice in A Day”: I’ve visited Venice before, as part of a […]
One of my favorite anthropologists is the Norwegian Thomas Hylland Eriksen. His book Engaging Anthropology was a big hit in my senior capstone seminar on public anthropology. I recently came across his essay “Diversity versus Difference: Neoliberalism in the Minority […]
The new year has brought a new name to the New Urban Network website and the print newsletter New Urban News. They’re now called Better! Cities & Towns (hereafter, BCT). In announcing the changes editor Robert Steuteville noted that the […]
Denver is well-known nationally as a city dedicated to New Urbanist development. Several projects in the city—most notably Belmar, Stapleton, and Highlands Garden Village (HGV)—have received lots of prominent press and some significant praise. The Congress for the New Urbanism […]
I’d like to revisit an issue raised in my recent summary of James Kunstler’s view of the urban future. This issue is the relative merits of competing urbanisms for addressing the contemporary challenges that confront city designers and planners. Kunstler […]
(A version of the following appeared in The Denver Post, co-authored with Kyle Cascioli, February 7, 2011). Former mayor Federico Peña once implored Denverites to “Imagine a Great City.” The Denver Post is regularly filled with opinions about how we might […]