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Creating a (mostly) car-free new town in Costa Rica
I had the pleasure of meeting Charles Brewer right when he was starting to get interested in becoming a real estate developer. This was after a very…
1 year ago
A Conversation with Dhiru Thadani
It’s truly a rare thing in life to run across people that are uber-talented, thoughtful, and just fantastic human beings. Dhiru Thadani is one of tho…
1 year, 1 month ago
Designing Beauty in Housing, by Being Intentional
The world of architecture is full of megalomanicas, wanna-be stars, and also a whole lot of good people just grinding out beautiful work outside the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Building Culture in Oklahoma
Austin Tunnell is one of the shining stars of a new generation of designer/builders for creative smaller projects, and he also happens to work in the…
1 year, 1 month ago
Exploring Small Scale vs Large Scale Development
It’s not often you run across people in the development world that have deep knowledge in both the smallest scales of projects and the biggest. The i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Boomerang to Help Your Hometown
“Just do it. Do it as quickly as you can.” That’s the advice of architect Doug Moss, who came to doing small-scale development projects after working…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Your Town a Bitterness Factory or a Hope Factory?
Allen County, Kansas is not a place most people will be familiar with, but the story is one you’ve probably heard before. Located in southeast Kansas…
1 year, 3 months ago
How to be a Small Developer that Makes a Big Impact
Jesse Russell and Ryan Andrews fit the profile of successful small developers. That is, they had no experience at all before trying it, almost no mon…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Conversation with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt
Mayor David Holt, far younger than me, has an impressive resume for any big-city Mayor. He’s been elected overwhelmingly twice, and his city is clear…
1 year, 3 months ago
Can Design Charrettes Teach Us How to Fix Broken Systems?
It’s an intriguing irony that we live in the managerial age, with more managers than ever, and yet so much in our society is so poorly managed. But w…
1 year, 3 months ago