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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…
10 months 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 C…
10 months, 1 week 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 mult…
11 months 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.” Of…
11 months, 1 week 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 t…
11 months, 2 weeks 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 c…
11 months, 3 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 e…
11 months, 4 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 believ…
1 year ago
Be Great with your Pawns
Rik Adamski is a man of many hats. But first and foremost, he’s someone that cares deeply about the people side of urban planning. So often, planners…
1 year ago
Do You Live in a Fragile Neighborhood?
From the earliest days of my interest in urban planning, I became very interested in the overlap between design and culture. By that I mean, how citi…
1 year ago