Archive for December, 2012

 
  • London Calling: Investigating Post-Olympics Regeneration in the East End

    London Calling: Investigating Post-Olympics Regeneration in the East End

    An earlier post about London on this blog was inspired by that city’s August 2011 riots.  In reporting the results of Hackney borough research by my former student Kiley Dowling I wondered if the urban improvements promised by London’s “Regeneration Games” […]

     
  • Reconfiguring 9th and Colorado

    Reconfiguring 9th and Colorado

    With the ending of the Walmart War at 9th and Colorado the main players are back at the drawing board.  Mayor Hancock, developer Jeff Fuqua, City Councilwoman Jeanne Robb and others have their say in this press release from the […]

     
  • Millennial Urbanology

    Millennial Urbanology

    Like the question about what constitutes good urban placemaking, the question about the lifestyle tastes and desires of the particular demographic that creative placemakers seek to attract—the Millennials—is a major preoccupation for urbanists.  Yesterday’s Denver Post, for example, contains an […]