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  • Wrestling with Growth, Equity, and Sustainability

    Wrestling with Growth, Equity, and Sustainability

    This post is inspired by a historic convening of Denver’s last four mayors for a keynote panel discussion at the 2017 Sustainable Denver Summit held on December 5, 2017. The summit’s theme was “Growing Responsibly.” This annual event set new […]

    January 20, 2018 / Denver, General, Intercultural City, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
  • Archaeology, Ancient Urbanism, and Cultural Heritage in Peru

    Archaeology, Ancient Urbanism, and Cultural Heritage in Peru

    Guest Post by Gracie Rouse Gracie Rouse is a University of Denver undergraduate student who took my course, The Ancient City, in winter quarter 2016. Gracie’s project for that class was on the site of Great Zimbabwe in Africa. Here, […]

    November 24, 2017 / Archaeology, Architecture, General, Intercultural City, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
  • Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, Virginia (Wikimedia Commons)

    Confederate Statues, Archaeology, and the Soul of Community

    The vigorous debate about Confederate statues that exploded in the wake of Charlottesville and continues today provides a useful entry point to a broader conversation about the nature, planning, and design of public commemorative landscapes. Scholars generally agree that monuments […]

    August 24, 2017 / Archaeology, General, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
  • Aurora Rising

    Aurora Rising

    One of the great revelations of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) annual conference on “Creating Inclusive Communities” that I wrote about here was learning more about Denver’s rapidly urbanizing neighbor to the east. Given its burgeoning immigrant […]

    August 21, 2017 / Intercultural City, Placemaking, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
  • Has Placemaking Become Cliché?

    Has Placemaking Become Cliché?

    The question of my title is the one I’m asking myself after attending public presentations by four planning and design firms invited to the University of Denver (DU) as finalists for a project to improve physical and social connections between […]

    May 24, 2017 / Architecture, General, Intercultural City, Placemaking

     
  • Creating Inclusive Communities: Notes From a Conference

    Creating Inclusive Communities: Notes From a Conference

    The annual Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) conference, held on the University of Denver campus since 1992, is the region’s premier gathering of land use and planning professionals. It’s also a terrific opportunity for eggheads like me to learn something […]

    April 23, 2017 / Denver, General, Placemaking, Sustainability

     
  • The Evolution of Green Urbanism

    The Evolution of Green Urbanism

    The evolution of urban planning has been the subject of several recent museum exhibitions, blog posts, books, and infographics. These representations of planning history are useful for several reasons. They remind us of where we are and how we got […]

    February 4, 2017 / General, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
  • Adolf Hitler in Paris with his architect Albert Speer  (left) and the public artist Arno Breker (Wikimedia Commons)

    Hitler’s Urbanists?

    While doing some web research the other day for stories about intercultural city building I came across a post on a website called “Granite State Future(s)” (hereafter, GSF) entitled Regionalists Praise Gulags, Concentration Camps for “Urbanism”.   The unnamed author criticizes an […]

    December 24, 2016 / General, Intercultural City, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
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    Rocky Mountain City Summit 2016: Place, Culture, Meaning

    Just about two months ago Rocky Mountain region civic leaders, planners, developers, and distinguished out-of-town guests convened for the sixth annual City Summit. Held in Denver and hosted by the Downtown Denver Partnership, this one-day event is packed with keynote speakers […]

    December 4, 2016 / Architecture, General, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
  • Was Jane Jacobs Wrong?

    Was Jane Jacobs Wrong?

    This has been a year of commemorating the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’s birth. The great urbanist’s birthday on May 4th prompted reflections by notable biographers and scholars like Roberta Gratz and Saskia Sassen. In commenting on the larger body […]

    October 12, 2016 / Archaeology, General, Urban Studies

     
  • Ebenezer Howard's Model of the Garden City (Wikimedia Commons)

    Are Garden Cities Sustainable?

    The answer to my title’s question depends, of course, on where they’re located, how they develop, and what we mean by “sustainable.” Certainly, Ebenezer Howard’s concept of the Garden City is one of the most influential planning models produced by […]

    June 30, 2016 / Denver, General, Intercultural City, Urban Studies, Water and The City

     
  • The Evolution of Urban Planning

    The Evolution of Urban Planning

    Guest Post submitted by Konstantin von der Schulenburg Konstantin von der Schulenburg is an architect who writes about issues relating to his industry. The infographic presented below has already been posted to several engineering, construction, and public interest websites. It’s a provocative […]

    April 14, 2016 / Architecture, General, Urban Studies

     
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