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A KC Christmas Special: Baseball, Parking & Infill Development
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! For this final episode of 2023, we convene some of my KC brain trust to discuss a few perennial hot topics…
2 years, 3 months ago
Do we know what "urbanism" even means?
Abby Newsham hosts the excellent podcast “Upzoned” on the Strong Towns network. I always recommend it to people, since it’s a great way to keep on to…
2 years, 3 months ago
Urbanists: Our Blind Spots Limit the Success of our Cities
Those of us who willingly embrace a label such as “urbanists” or “new urbanists” would do well to recognize we are a tiny minority of the population.…
2 years, 4 months ago
12 Reasons to Love the American Grid, and Doug Allen
Paul Knight, a planner with the design firm Historical Concepts, can give you a dozen reasons for just about anything. More importantly, he can give …
2 years, 4 months ago
What do Fenway Park, Notre Dame, and barking dogs have in common?
Philip Bess joins me this week in a wide-ranging conversation about architecture, academia, and baseball. It’s not the first time we’ve shared such a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Reforming our culture of building, one brick at a time
Somehow it’s fitting that his name is Clay. Yet, he’s more than just a brick mason. Clay Chapman is part artist, part philosopher, and part builder. …
2 years, 5 months ago
Are we drifting back towards 1910?
Today, I discuss three chapters of issues that are tied together by the place-making triumvirate of design, policy and management. First, I revisit t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Diane Botwin: Transmogrifier
I’ve long said it’s incredibly unfortunate we have such negative caricatures of real estate developers. Perhaps this is a sad legacy of the movie “Ca…
2 years, 5 months ago
Going Deeper on Pre-Approved Plans
In the very small world of people working on the concept of pre-approved building plans for infill development, Jennifer Griffin and Jennifer Settle …
2 years, 6 months ago
City Comforts, Revisited
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David Sucher’s 1995 classic, City Comforts is a book I have lon…
2 years, 6 months ago