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  • Union Station, Denver (D. Saitta)

    Is America’s Civic Architecture Inherently Racist?

    I personally don’t think that it is. However, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic Ray Mark Rinaldi gives the opposite impression to thousands of readers via a recent opinion piece called “Did Diversity Miss the Train in Union Station Architecture?” The […]

    November 9, 2014 / Architecture, Denver, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
  • Top: Chicago's White City; Bottom: Colorado's White City (Wikimedia Commons)

    Learning From the ‘White City’

    It’s not the White City that would likely come to mind first, i.e., Daniel Burnham’s spectacular grouping of neoclassical buildings at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, made famous by Erik Larson’s book. Rather, it’s a white canvas tent […]

    October 25, 2014 / Archaeology, Intercultural City, Urban Studies

     
  • Debating Starchitecture: A Mile High View

    Debating Starchitecture: A Mile High View

    Witold Rybczynski started the latest go-round with a piece for the New York Times Magazine. Rybczynski laments the globalization of civic architecture by a handful of internationally known practitioners or “starchitects.” He asserts that architecture is a social art rather […]

    September 17, 2014 / Architecture, Denver, Intercultural City, Placemaking

     
  • Union Station and its new Train Shed (D. Saitta)

    Taking Stock of Denver Placemaking

    Denver is earning a reputation as a city to watch for 21st century placemaking. Its Lower Downtown (LoDo) historic district—a mixed-use area now 25 years in the making—is a revitalization success story. The city is making major investments in transit-oriented […]

    August 13, 2014 / 9th and Colorado, Denver, New Urbanism, Placemaking

     
  • Does the Aspen Ideas Festival Offer Any Compelling Ideas for Improving City Life?

    Does the Aspen Ideas Festival Offer Any Compelling Ideas for Improving City Life?

    The ideas at issue are presented in the short video featured in this recent CityLab story. Several “Leading Voices” in today’s conversation about cities were asked this “Big Question”: What’s the Number One Thing We Could Do to Improve City Life? […]

    August 4, 2014 / General, Urban Studies

     
  • Denver, as viewed from its University (D. Saitta)

    The University and The City: Location, Structure, Culture

    This week Jeff Selingo writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that location is becoming increasingly important as a factor that can determine a university’s success or failure. He argues that institutions located in cities enjoy a strategic advantage by […]

    August 2, 2014 / General, Sustainability

     
  • Manifesto for an Intercultural Urbanism

    Manifesto for an Intercultural Urbanism

    I’m pleased to have been invited to write for the public interest urban planning website Planetizen. In keeping with the theme of Intercultural Urbanism my inaugural essay briefly describes the philosophical and practical commitments of an approach to urban planning […]

    July 17, 2014 / Intercultural City, Placemaking, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
  • Has Urbanism Lost All Meaning?

    Has Urbanism Lost All Meaning?

    On New Year’s Eve 2013 the staff at Atlantic Cities (now City Lab) ran a story about “Urbanist Buzzwords to Rethink in 2014.” These buzzwords included popular favorites such as “placemaking”, “smart growth”, and even “gentrification.” Readers were urged to […]

    July 1, 2014 / General, Intercultural City, New Urbanism, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
  • Honolulu Homeles (Elyse Butler, New York Times)

    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 […]

    June 24, 2014 / Architecture, Books, General, Placemaking

     
  • Kerfuffle Up in Buffalo

    Kerfuffle Up in Buffalo

    The dust-up exemplifies a wider fuss among urbanists, and the Buffalo front is just the latest one to be opened up. Colin Dabkowski of the Buffalo News started it, with an “open letter” to New Urbanists who had just completed their […]

    June 12, 2014 / General, New Urbanism

     
  • Yonge Street, Toronto (D. Saitta)

    Multicultural Planning, Citizen Activism, and the Lived Experience of Urban Place

    My title identifies three powerful themes in contemporary urban thought that were highlighted at last fall’s biennial conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History held in Toronto, October 4-6, 2013. What follows is a lightly revised report on […]

    June 7, 2014 / General, Intercultural City, Placemaking

     
  • Race and Equity in Urban Nature

    Race and Equity in Urban Nature

    My title is that of a session at the recent Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s (RMLUI) annual conference, in which I was privileged to participate. The session was among those in a featured conference track on “Conservation in Metropolitan Regions.” […]

    March 27, 2014 / Evolutionary Anthropology, General, Intercultural City, Placemaking, Sustainability

     
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