Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Growth vs. shrinking | young vs. old | urban vs. suburban | historic preservation vs. limited building regulation. Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach.

Urban Planning 52

Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

When the Netherlands reset their land use and transportation planning policy away from automobile dependence, one of the things they did was add a "transportation demand" lens to their approval of new development applications (" Utrecht: ABC Planning as a planning instrument in urban planning policy ").

Transportation 52

Transportation Development Urban Planning Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rational planning is pretty static at least to me, with constrained scopes and less willingness to change approaches and recommendations as new information is uncovered. Once too, I misheard a presentation at a conference, and I thought the presenter said she applies "graphic design" approaches to urban planning.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52