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....In recent years, complete idiots became respected developers overnight and were making millions doing, mindless assembly line developmen...

“What were seeing right now is an inability to look at how we live and how it relates to our problems, and financial problems,” said Kunstle...

Three interesting blog/articles: First, Steve Mouzon, the author of a blog called The Original Green has two good posts up about called auto...

This research analyzed a sample of 40,000 mortgages and found the higher the rate of vehicle ownership, the greater the probability of mortg...

...the previous model was based on the assumption that the United States could prop up the single family home in a distant location by keepi...

Brookings : Fastest growing poverty rates occur in suburbs: In places where sprawl without smart regional planning ... Obama administration ...

....People need beauty. They need the sense of being at home in their world, and being in communication with other souls. In so many areas o...

You cannot have a great city without rich and poor living downtown. This is the first requirement of healthy cities . - Jacquein Robertson...

...A century ago, many buildings on commercial streets served by streetcars were built with storefronts flush to the sidewalks and with one ...

From an article in a Lansing real estate magazine , Chris Leinberger talks about how to turn Michigan around: ...If you don't offer the ...

The first cul-de-sac? Happened upon this old advertisement which shows Linden Place in Mariemont. This street and houses are still there. ...

And Crumb asks "what next?.." Well we have had 30 years of development since this was drawn, and I think the 13th panel of the ab...

Congressional Quarterly , March 6, 2009 (subscription required) Livable Communities' Central to Admin's Transport Goals When Transpo...

The present idea of the street must be abolished: DEATH OF THE STREET!DEATH OF THE STREET! – Le Corbusier , The Radiant City (1933), p. 124 ...

...What then is this world of the New Urbanism, and why is traditional architecture important to it? There are many reasons, but the primary...

....the stimulus must distinguish between the right kind and wrong kind of pavement — those investments that make communities more livable a...

"I can’t tell if the SmartCode is a radical, green, left-wing document or a developer-friendly, market based right-wing one,”... ...it...

This diagram is an important part of Christopher Alexander 's theories about good design, specifically urban design. His early essay ...

...What is the single most significant change that can be made in every town and city in America? One that would aid economic development, ...