An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
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 […]
This question has been considered by multiple urbanists over the last few years. Some of the more visible conclude that an urbanism grounded in science rather than art—that is, one that is quantitative, predictive, and law-like rather than qualitative, aesthetic, […]
It has been a while since we wrote about this interesting, controversy-filled, and ongoing saga of Denver infill development. Previous posts are archived here. Some interesting things have transpired since last writing back in December 2012. King Soopers pulled out […]
Like the insurgency in Turkey, this week’s insurgency in multiple Brazilian cities goes squarely to a citizenry’s right to the city: its infrastructure, public space, economic and social resources, and processes of political decision-making. This evening a colleague at the […]
In previous posts I’ve addressed my university’s interest in building partnerships with the city of Denver and some of the barriers that impede interdisciplinary teaching and research on campus. The prospects for better partnerships and interdisciplinary work on a host […]
Regarding the recent insurgency in Taksim Square, my colleague and research collaborator Randy McGuire this evening forwarded the following email message from a Binghamton University graduate student, Hande Sarikuzu, who’s on the scene and asks that the news be shared […]
Yesterday I had the honor of speaking in the University of Denver’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI) Summer Seminar series. I’ve spoken to this engaged and perceptive group of adult learners before, on topics having to do with human evolution. […]
A week ago the Better Block project came to the Five Points neighborhood in Denver. Five Points is one of the city’s oldest and most colorful areas—both literally and figuratively. Five Points is a historically black neighborhood. With a vibrant […]