This week, I attempted to give my first urban design walking tour of Fredericton to about a dozen friends. Before hitting the road, I asked my partner if I've ever mentioned something about urban design that made him see the city in a new way. Then, I revisited my own highlights from dog-eared books that have guided my own thinking and compiled a best-of list.. I'd like to practice, improve, and repeat this walking tour going forward. What else would you add to this list of concepts that cover the basics and 'aha' moments of urban design?
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Read MoreThe American, auto-based development pattern is a huge experiment. Part two of our Curbside Chat video series.
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Read MoreChuck reviews three different incidents involving children killed by automobiles and asks: Who are really the ones showing casual indifference here?
Read MoreThe kind of thinking America needs right now.
Read MoreAs of yesterday, 40 of the 75 spots available for the Small Scale Developers Boot Camp in Dallas this August are already spoken for. If you're thinking about attending, better move fast.
Read MoreI was asked to participate in a public art festival using rain-activated art. It took me a while to decide what to do and how to do it, but the process is remarkably easy once you know what to expect. Here's a how-to if you're interested in trying your own stencil rainworks. It's pretty much the same for spray chalk.
Read MoreThe engineering profession -- with a growing number of notable exceptions -- employs a systematic approach to design prioritizing the fast and efficient (but not safe) movement of automobiles over everything else. Engineers show a conscious indifference to pedestrians and cyclists, misunderstanding their needs where they are not disregarded completely. This is the very definition of gross negligence.
Read MoreCar leaves the stroad, smashes into another car which smashed into a daycare killing one and injuring many others. What do the adults here do to keep their kids safe?
Do they slow the cars? Do they address the incompatibility of having highway speed vehicles on a nasty, complex stroad just feet from the doorway to the facility? Do they look at the sidewalks adjacent to vehicles traveling at highway speeds and think it strange, even barbaric, that we would place anyone -- let alone young children -- in such a dangerous environment?
Of course not.
Read MoreThe continued street/road hybrid approach of America's countless stroads causes needless tragedy, with the side effect of our cities going bankrupt in the process.
#slowthecars
Read MoreThis week should be renamed the Johnny show, because Johnny Sanphillippo of Granola Shotgun has delivered so much great content this past week.
Read MoreIn case you missed it, here's a recap of the week at Strong Towns.
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