An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]