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  • Is ‘Sustainable’ Urban Placemaking Elitist?

    Is ‘Sustainable’ Urban Placemaking Elitist?

    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 […]

    November 12, 2013 / Intercultural City, Placemaking, Sustainability

     
  • Blogging the City

    Blogging the City

    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 […]

    October 22, 2013 / General, Urban Studies

     
  • Millennial Urbanology, 2013

    Millennial Urbanology, 2013

    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 […]

    October 13, 2013 / Placemaking, Sustainability

     
  • Food Trucks in Civic Center Park (D. Saitta)

    Whither Civic Center Park, Denver?

    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 […]

    September 5, 2013 / Denver, Placemaking

     
  • Remembering the “White City”

    Remembering the “White City”

    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 […]

    September 1, 2013 / Archaeology, Intercultural City

     
  • Rise Into Ruin, 10 West 49th Street at North Broadway (D. Saitta)

    Draft Urbanism: Art in the Cityscape

    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 […]

    August 14, 2013 / Denver, Intercultural City, Urban Studies

     
  • Draft Urbanism: Architecture in Public Spaces

    Draft Urbanism: Architecture in Public Spaces

    “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 […]

    August 11, 2013 / Architecture, Denver, Intercultural City

     
  • Revisiting Post-Olympics Regeneration in London: Is Chobham Manor the New Pruitt-Igoe?

    Revisiting Post-Olympics Regeneration in London: Is Chobham Manor the New Pruitt-Igoe?

    In preparing a report for my university’s Office of Internationalization on last winter’s trip to research Post-Olympics regeneration in London (some preliminary notes are here), I came across this review in The Guardian by Oliver Wainwright.  His piece is pretty critical […]

    August 6, 2013 / London, Placemaking, Pruitt-Igoe

     
  • LoDo Patio (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

    The Flip-Side of Urban Vibrancy, Or, What Millennials Do After Hours

    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.  […]

    July 30, 2013 / Denver, Placemaking

     
  • Is “Back-To-The-City” the New “White Flight”?

    Is “Back-To-The-City” the New “White Flight”?

    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 […]

    July 24, 2013 / Denver, General, New Urbanism, Placemaking

     
  • Trayvon Martin and the Psychosocial Impact of Gated Communities

    Trayvon Martin and the Psychosocial Impact of Gated Communities

    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 […]

    July 16, 2013 / General, Placemaking, Urban Studies

     
  • Urban Sustainability and Social Justice

    Urban Sustainability and Social Justice

    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 […]

    July 10, 2013 / Books, Intercultural City, Placemaking, Sustainability, Urban Studies

     
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