Monthly Archives: October 2013
Small Lots and the Evolution of the City
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
This Little House
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
What About The Elderly?
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
why the “sit-able city” is the next big idea
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
A Cartoonist’s Vision of a Car-Free Future
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
Carfree Times: September 2013 Edition
Piscataquis Village Project investor, J.H. Crawford, has just published this quarter’s edition of Carfree Times