Civic Commons: Spreading opportunity to the whole city
Reimagining the Civic Commons was launched in Philadelphia, and similar strategies are now being applied to five US Cities.
Sidewalk cafes: Silver bullets for walkable places
When someone walks along a street, they’re gone in a moment. But when they sit down to a meal, they might be there for an hour or more. Because of this, the sidewalk cafe is the most powerful tool to enhance people’s desire to walk in a place.
CNU 25: Highlights from the silver anniversary
Fourteen hundred top land-use professionals, public officials, and citizens gathered in Seattle last week to discuss the future of cities.
City as Platform is more than a tour, and more than just a conference session—it is a hands-on, collaborative learning experience in the field.
Great idea: Multidisciplinary design charrette
A time-compressed design process that gathers all of the stakeholders and practitioners together has great potential for creating more holistic communities, experts say.
Public space, identity politics, and civic collaboration
All politics is local—and to that we could add, all politics is rooted in the public spaces we share at the local level.
There are two models for development of cities and towns. One, the neighborhood model, founded on thousands of years of trial and error, brings people together.
Jane Jacobs would be fighting to preserve affordable housing
Note: This article was written as a speech to the first annual Jane Jacobs Award at Met Council Housing.
How to create a bottom-up coalition for change
Finding Tucson's lovable places
Whenever we are writing character-based zoning, one of the first things we do is a regional tour to analyze the DNA of the most loved places. Places cannot be resilient unless they can be loved.