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Family and Place, Food, Greensboro, Rural, Traveling as An Urbanist November 22, 2012

Gratitude for a Country Road (And All of You!)

What I’m thankful for on Thanksgiving Day 2012.

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apartment living, Brooklyn, Food, Greensboro, Issues and Ideas, Things At a Place November 15, 2012

Identifying Real Place Inferiority

Why natural disasters cancel the trivial problems of places.

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Cities, Greensboro, Issues and Ideas, Politics of Place, Raleigh, Things At a Place, Transportation, What is urban planning? November 8, 2012

My Own Letter to the Nation, In Terms of the State and the City

Share Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?- “Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” On Election Night, President Barrack Obama earned a second term. Pot and gay marriage are legal in more states. [...]

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Cities March 12, 2013

The Case for a Lazy Urbanism

Urbanism should be second nature, not bound by jargon or complex activities.

Cities February 22, 2013

Development Types Are Not an Euphemism for Race

ShareDuring a conversation at the recent Streetsblog training in Kansas City, I mentioned again the story of why the site [...]

Atlanta February 12, 2013

Transit + Roof + Food + Education + Job + Proximity + Sense of Place = Good Life. A Broken Equation?

It shoudln’t be, but sadly, in many cities, it is.

Cities January 27, 2013

Guest Post: Yes, A City Can and Should Have It All.

Graham Sheridan, masters candidate in public administration at Brown University, takes my civic-infereiorty complex to task and demands that a city can and should have it all.

Greensboro January 18, 2013

Why Do Southerners Go Crazy Over Snow?

Because it happens just enough to both enchant us and drive us crazy.

Cities January 15, 2013

Mixed-Use Ain’t Always Pretty

Let’s not fall into the trap that mixed-use is only a building code or type.