Can Wal-Mart Think Smaller?
Wal-Mart is hinting at smaller stores. The reality: land is not available anywhere for the classic Wal-Mart supercenter, weighing in at over 200,000 square feet.
Wal-Mart is hinting at smaller stores. The reality: land is not available anywhere for the classic Wal-Mart supercenter, weighing in at over 200,000 square feet.
Paul McRandle | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.
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.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
When it comes to policy on sustainable progress, we should be including measures that change the way we are doing things, not merely advance the technology that allows us to do things the same.
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.
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.
F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
New development should pay its own way, or at least make a justification as to why the subsidy is in the public interest when all factors, including the consequences of sprawl, are considered.
Curtis Black | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama now faces tremendous challenges, and local advocates -- many of whom have worked with Obama over the years -- offer a range of ideas on how to move forward.
Al Norman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business