A Fourth Urbanism, Part 6: Limitations on Urbanism
Bad schools and even the perception of disorder drive people from the city more effectively than bad urban form, and keeping people in the city is more important than the form the city takes.
Bad schools and even the perception of disorder drive people from the city more effectively than bad urban form, and keeping people in the city is more important than the form the city takes.
Frank Gruber | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
Because the rebuilding of cities is so important, the effort to do so, if that effort is based on recognizable principles, deserves recognition as something special.
Frank Gruber | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
I wrote about three places where I have seen Cityism occurring -- Vancouver, Barcelona, and my own city of Santa Monica -- but there are many other cities where Cityism is taking place.
Frank Gruber | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style
The developments in these three cities are based on maximizing and capturing the economic value of city real estate. They all represent intensification of uses.
Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
I was in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, and I went into Bridge Street Books, located nowhere near Bridge Street, from what I could tell. It was o...
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
If conventional suburban development is our civilization, it has had its discontents for a long time. It's worth considering what the alternatives are.
Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
As I wrote this morning at the New Haven Review (where I would love to receive comments): I have been thinking about turning this article I wrote abo...
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
New Urbanism is an elastic concept, and an elastic movement. On one hand it's pragmatic, on the other, it's got a Charter with principles.
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Theories were created for all kinds of urbanism except for the kind that became dominant in America: suburban sprawl.
Frank Gruber | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
New Urbanists are attacked from both sides of America's cultural divide. Chances are, if you mention New Urbanism to a group of forward thinking, contemporary design professionals, whether architects or planners, they will roll their eyes.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that raised the heretical question: is the American dream of suburbanism being killed by high gas prices...
Frank Gruber | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics