‘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.
Books
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Sadistic Urbanism
The New York Times just ran a story about the steps that Honolulu is taking to crack down on the homeless in an effort to shore up its tourism industry. Homelessness is up 32% in Honolulu over the past 5 […]
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Urban Sustainability and Social Justice
There’s an “equity deficit” in our thinking about urban sustainability. Mainstream green theory is long on environmental justice, but much shorter on social justice. Sustainable development agendas largely serve middle-to-upper income populations at the expense of lower income people of […]
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Denver: An Archaeological and Contemporary History
Yesterday I had the honor of speaking in the University of Denver’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI) Summer Seminar series. I’ve spoken to this engaged and perceptive group of adult learners before, on topics having to do with human evolution. […]
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Retrofitting Dead and Dying Suburban Places
The College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Denver is hosting a spring lecture series on “Design in the Public Interest & Alternative Forms of Practice.” Last week Ellen Dunham-Jones kicked things off with a lecture […]
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Intercultural City
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. […]
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Educating for Urban Sustainability…And Remembering Doug Darden
The Chronicle of Higher Education, to which I’m a long-time subscriber, channeled its inner urbanist last week with three city-related articles in the January 27 edition. Scott Carlson wrote about “America’s Health Threat: Poor Urban Design.” He featured the work […]
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Three Urbanisms Revisited
A recurring theme in the urban studies literature and blogosphere (including this blog) is critical comparison of different approaches to city-building. Such an exercise can have practical utility in the street and also pedagogical utility in the classroom. Although any […]
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Celebrating ‘City of Quartz’
It was good to notice that Mike Davis’s classic book has just been written up by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne as part of his “Reading LA” series. In fact Hawthorne identifies Quartz as one of the three […]
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People or Place in Urban Planning?
In his deservedly well-reviewed book Triumph of the City the Harvard economist Edward Glaeser unambiguously opts for people as the key element that determines a city’s success. He argues that a place-centered approach to urban planning—that is, one informed by […]