For a city to be “antifragile,” to bounce back from disaster and disruption stronger than it was before, it needs to embrace the lessons of healthy ecological systems.
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Counterintuitive though it may feel, sometimes to build a better city, we need to prune things back, rather than adding more.
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Aldo Leopold was an ecologist, not an urban planner, but insights from his Sand County Almanac can resonate with anyone interested in urbanism.
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These observations from a morning detour demonstrate why small neighborhood side streets are better than big, wide highways, even when it comes to moving traffic.
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What does and doesn’t work about the “great-granddaddy” of New Urbanism?
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It’s time we change our zoning rules to allow more small commercial spaces to help spice up and enliven our residential streets and neighborhoods.
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We’ve explored why new housing is so expensive…but why is it often the same case for used housing?
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Let’s #DoTheMath on some public infrastructure in Providence, RI.
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In the first of this two-part series, Seth Zeren breaks down why modern-day housing is so expensive compared to housing of the mid-20th century.
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This Rhode Island community came together to advocate for parking improvements in their neighborhood—and it worked.
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For our real-estate markets to allow incremental development to be economically viable, there are some challenges we need to confront.
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(Hint: It doesn't involve luring a mega-corporation to our community.)
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Every year in our household—like a lot of people—we make new years resolutions. This year we wanted to try something a little different.
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Cities are complex ecosystems. For areas in need of redevelopment, the only way to return to a healthy urban fabric is incrementally, a few small projects a year until the neighborhood has buildings of every age and condition, suitable for adaptation to the particular needs of some future time.
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