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“The world’s largest retailer has an image problem.” So begins the latest, front page Denver Post story about the Walmart brouhaha at 9th and Colorado. I’m afraid it’s not only Walmart that has an image problem if the quality and tone of […]
This is one of the big questions at issue in the Intercultural Urbanism blog posts archived under Water and the City. It’s also the question I brought to a half-day focus group about water supply and land use held in […]
We’ve been writing a lot about 9th and Colorado lately. Consequently, the Denver website This Could Be Interesting suggests that We Might Be Obsessed. The number of 9th and Colorado posts at Intercultural Urbanism currently amounts to just under 20% of the total. […]
Just this morning I discovered a nice opinion piece in The Denver Business Journal about the 9th and Colorado Walmart debate. It’s by Brad Segal, president of Progressive Urban Management Associates in Denver. The piece is a breath of fresh air to […]
Last week Charlie Rose invited to his interview table the geographer David Harvey and the economist Richard Wolff. At issue was the question of whether modern capitalism is in crisis. Embedded in the conversation are several topics relevant to the […]
Yesterday’s Denver Post and the previous day’s New York Times contained stories relevant to the ongoing debate about how to develop 9th and Colorado. The Post offered a concise summary of where things stand on the eve of next week’s Denver […]
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. […]
Citizen opposition to developer plans for a Walmart store at 9th and Colorado in Denver is galvanizing, as evidenced by the appearance of a WordPress website and Facebook page. The major concerns continue to be Walmart’s alleged misfit with the “spirit” […]
California Home and Design Magazine has identified 25 American buildings that need immediate demolition. It offers this as the criterion for making the hit list: When proportion, balance, form and function come together in a delicate harmony, architecture is nothing […]
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 […]
There’s been some big news and some big controversy since last reporting on this very interesting Denver infill project (for the whole series of reports and opinions go here). First, the developer Jeff Fuqua broke away from Sembler and started […]
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 […]