An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
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 […]
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.” […]
One of the joys of teaching and researching urban issues in London—at least for some of us—is experiencing pub culture and partaking of its liquid assets. Thus it was with great concern that I read an article in yesterday’s New […]
For a reason articulated a bit more specifically below, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is an appropriate day for my first post of 2014. Our new Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for the Study of Social (In)equality (or, IRISE) at the […]
The demolition in question is the campus of the former University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver. We’ve been chronicling this development, and the struggle between developers and citizens over what it should […]
Jamaal Green thinks so. Playing off of a recent post by Kaid Benfield, he suggests that mainstream sustainability advocates must “move beyond a consumptive conception of cities that’s based on attracting a preferred social elite, whether they be footloose millennials […]
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) held its biennial meeting in Toronto earlier this month. I was delighted to have been invited by SACRPH’s incoming president, Joe Heathcott (whom I first met courtesy of his appearance […]
Understanding the preferred tastes and desires of the particular demographic that contemporary urban placemakers most seek to attract—the Millennials—is one of the planning profession’s major preoccupations. One of the advantages of teaching urban studies to a college audience is that […]
Denver’s Civic Center Park is one of America’s best preserved legacies of the early 20th century City Beautiful movement. Opened in 1919, the park has had its ups and downs over the years. In the last decade over $15 million […]
Today’s edition of the Denver Post contains an op-ed piece I wrote about the work we’re doing here in Colorado to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Great Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914, especially the Ludlow Massacre. I’ve blogged about […]
In a previous post I evaluated the architectural installations of Denver’s Biennial of the Americas exhibition of Draft Urbanism. In this post I examine the billboard art. More than 30 artists, poets, and philosophers contributed pieces covering a 10 square […]
“Draft Urbanism” is the exhibition theme of Denver’s 2013 Biennial of the Americas celebration. The Biennial is an “international festival of ideas, art, and culture” that provides an opportunity for leaders in business, government, philanthropy, and the arts to examine […]