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by Nathan Lewis Every year about this time, we pause and take a little time to imagine what life could be like without cars. For five thousand years of human urban civilization, people didn’t have cars. Their cities reflected this: they … Continue reading →

by Andrew Alexander Price Does block size and street grid really matter? Read on…  

by Nathan Lewis – New World Economics One thing you start thinking about, when you understand what I am talking about regarding the Traditional City, is: why don’t people get it I think this is, at least in part, because … Continue reading →

Andrew Alexander Price One of the things I like to do on my blog is to point out a modern norn that does not make much sense to me, yet we grew up with it, and take it for granted, … Continue reading →

from the Planner Dan blog   Today, we tend to think of small lots as unusable scraps; nuisances which stand in the way of good development. Many redevelopment efforts focus on the assembly of these lots into workable development sites. … Continue reading →

From Strong Towns –  CHARLES MAROHN I’m an engineer, so for a lot of my life I’ve been somewhat dismissive — not intentionally but by default — of many things aesthetic. My first year at the University of Minnesota, I roomed … Continue reading →

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 | ANDREW PRICE via Strong Towns  Traversing an environment built for the automobile in anything other than an automobile, sucks. Even if you can overcome the inhospitable nature of that, there are others that can not. That person may … Continue reading →

Posted by Chuck Wolfe – My Urbanist At TEDCity2.0 in New York City the week before last, urban redefinition, reinvention and reimagination ruled. Among the presentations:  that urbanist stand-by, the the most walkable cities in the world. Mind you, I don’t want to … Continue reading →

Stephanie Garlock – Atlantic Cities St. Paul-based cartoonist Andy Singer has never owned a car, even though he’s lived, over the last 47 years, in places as diverse as New York City, Ithaca, Oakland, Boston, and now the Twin Cities. … Continue reading →

Piscataquis Village Project investor,  J.H. Crawford, has just published this quarter’s edition of Carfree Times