An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
The Denver Post has the story of a typical after-hours Saturday night in Lower Downtown Denver, and it’s not pretty. In 2010 “LoDo” was identified by the American Planning Association as one of America’s Great Places in the “Neighborhood” category. […]
It’s a great question, posed by Richey Piiparinen in a post on his blog and re-posted to New Geography. The question is prompted by Thomas B. Fordham Institute data showing that white folks are leading the human migration from suburbs […]
In March 2012 Better Cities and Towns posted an article by Robert Steuteville suggesting that a “poorly planned, exclusionary built environment” was a factor in Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands of George Zimmerman. Steuteville posited that gated communities create […]
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 […]
This question has been considered by multiple urbanists over the last few years. Some of the more visible conclude that an urbanism grounded in science rather than art—that is, one that is quantitative, predictive, and law-like rather than qualitative, aesthetic, […]