urban design
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, PROFILES OF PEOPLE TO KNOW, Special Features
Person to know about…Doug Farr
CT.org…Mr. Farr’s synthesis of sustainability and urbanism gives every city and town a path for remaining or becoming a successful
BOOKS
“American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life” by Richard K. Rein
From Amazon… “On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed
VIDEOS
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
Fractals, like the Powers of Ten, is a concept seemingly unrelated to urban design and city planning. However, understanding natural
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Poundbury Reconsidered and Prince Charles’ Ten Urban Design Principles.
How things change: just as the Prince’s ideas on organic food and the environment have gone mainstream (homeopathy less so),
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
10 Female Urban Planners that deserve limelight
Urban Planning is a gender dominant profession. The presence of male gender prevails in the statistics that clearly show it
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Elevated Chicago
City of Chicago’s first-ever Equitable Transit-Oriented Development policy plan. Elevated Chicago is a partnership of organizations committed to transforming the
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES
Wrestling Public Benefits from Derelict and Neglected Roads, Rails and Rivers
THE PROSPECT. Valuable lands and waters are being discarded because their first use has become obsolete and most communities and
BOOKS
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
“Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide