Ever vibrant, Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans remains a symbolic venue of choice for the reinvented, compact and walkable American city.
Category: compact development
six postcards not to send to an urbanist
Interested in mocking your favorite urbanist’s belief in, inter alia, reclaiming the public domain, and deemphasizing automobile use as well as auto-dependent chain retail establishments? Send away.
remembering an urban space from a dream
As we first described in “urban radar and finding places of scale”, here, some urban spaces captivate in an indelible way. Consider the look and feel of this human-scale courtyard, adjacent to the Latin Patriarch Road near Jaffa Gate just inside Jerusalem’s Old City.
backyard cottages, redux
Seattle’s backyard cottage ordinance has gone national, thanks to a USA Today article highlighted by NRDC’s Kaid Benfield, both in his blog and the Huffington Post. Benfield’s Post piece is embedded below, which includes a link to our August 28, 2009 article in Crosscut:
“Barriers Report”, PSRC version: transit-oriented fundamentals anew
The Puget Sound Regional Council has republished The Quality Growth Alliance’s report entitled “From Barriers to Solutions and Best Practices: Urban Centers and TOD in Washington”, which focuses on how to enhance our region’s ability to assure homes close to work and amenities, without exclusive reliance on automobiles.
The republished report is embedded below.