This is the grave of James Rouse. Born in 1914 in Easton, Maryland, Rouse grew up in a well-off family, though when he was 16, his mother and father both died of different medical aliments. The money was gone too, but he had older siblings....
urban planning
Forgive me for a similar post as to what I wrote about Houston, but a gigantic hurricane ripping apart Florida is entirely predictable and the developmentalist ideology that drives that.
I am a weather nerd (among many other forms of nerd). Every day, I check the National Weather Service's 5 and 7 day rainfall forecasts. I think I started doing.
This is a good piece dissecting the continued dominance of the suburban corporate campus in an age of climate change and higher desire for dense living. What makes this more interesting is that so many of the Silicon Valley companies who are building these huge...
An interesting argument that we need Robert Moses and Le Corbusier-type architects to remake our cities to become bicycle friendly: If Henry Ford were reincarnated as a bike maker, Le.
IKEA is proposing to build an entire neighborhood in east London. It's hard to see what could go wrong with giving this kind of control to a company whose success.
Outstanding Louise Mozingo op-ed on how office parks contribute to sprawl and how any rethinking of urban spaces needs to place limitations on the growth of "pastoral capitalism," as she calls it. In conclusion: All three steps — a halt to agricultural land conversion, connecting...