Three Views of Governance in the 21st Century: The three books, written before the Great Recession, resonate today. Messrs. Fukuyama, […]
In 2013, the City of Orlando was completing the Dr. Philips Center in Downtown. The initial idea depended on a
DOWNTOWN IS A SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS. The very nature of a main street in a downtown is that of a
“If you want to be an optimist, stand on your head. The world looks a lot better from the bottom
LEVERAGE PUBLIC BUILDINGS. City Hall must be on or near main street to get the full impact of its influence.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS: A SAMPLER. Technological innovations are washing over society at an unprecedented pace. Previous generations may have felt the
Jan Gehl has put together an extended career doing urban workfocused on the human scale of cities…designing urban places
THE PLACE WHERE COMMERCIAL, CIVIC AND RESIDENTIAL LIVES CONVERGE. Downtown’s focus is main street; the street with the commercial, office
More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to