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A Symphony of Summer Advice
Today’s episode isn’t exactly Coughlin’s Laws, nor is it my whole list of Klinkenberg’s Rules, but it is full of some life advice I’d like to share for the dog days of Summer. I’ve long enjoyed solvi…
Published on 6 months ago
Starting a new Architecture School, Rooted in the Classics
What's it like to start an architecture school from scratch? That’s a question that has run through my mind for years. So much of the education of architects and designers is, at best, misguided. As …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
State-Level Code Reforms for More and Better Housing
Why is the production of housing, especially new housing in big cities, so expensive? Why doesn’t inclusionary zoning make our cities more affordable? How can cities amend the building code itself to…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Bootstrapping Small Scale Affordable Housing
Terrell Jolly didn’t start out making it his mission in life to become a small-scale developer. But somewhere along the way, from Detroit to Kansas City, he made it happen. And boy is KC lucky to hav…
Published on 7 months ago
Housing as Economic Development
“The solution to the housing problem is more housing. Getting there is the hard part.” So says my friend Dennis Strait, now retired Principal of multistudio in Kansas City. Dennis is a planner, archi…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Will Your Town Revitalize or Will it Die?
Not long ago, I started noticing these long and interesting regular Facebook posts coming through my feed by an account named “Revitalize or Die.” Often compelling rants on towns, economic developmen…
Published on 8 months ago
Why You Should Make Friends with a Banker
Many of us don’t like to think too much about banking and money until we REALLY need to. As an architect, I’m as guilty as anyone as not taking the time to think through the financial side, and to al…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
When Principles Meet the Real World
Patrick Tuohey is the Policy Director and co-founder of a think tank called the Better Cities Project. While his own views are politically right of center, the organization is non partisan and aims t…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Are properties ever really obsolete?
Rodney Dangerfield once famously said, “golf courses and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate.” We won’t touch cemeteries in this episode, but we do talk about golf courses. Monte A…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
It Is What It Is - Or Not
We often don’t realize that the “way things are” is just a reflection of some radical change that happened in a previous era. While I’m a firm believer that aspects of human nature haven’t really cha…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago