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A magazine story that I read this week had me thinking of this town with its unique town square configuration (apologies for the photo quality)
Following up on last week’s post on the GREAT City proposed outside Chengdu, China:
I had the opportunity to speak with Peter Kindel, AIA, ASLA – Director of Urban Design for Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Architecture. Peter and I discussed a number of issues relating to the design, its background, and the pushback that comes [...]
Making the rounds in the last week in the architecture/urban planning world is this unveiling of a prototype new city design in China. Designed by the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture out of Chicago, the city is a challenging proposition to the current state of urban planning in China. [...]
I’ve written before that cities are not statistics. In that particular case, I was talking about how we can quantify various aspects of a city or neighborhood, but that those numbers tell us very little about life – the actual experience on the ground, whether people will walk and what kind of economic [...]
A quick interlude between college football games:
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page article describing one man’s efforts at rebuilding in Japan, following the tsunami earlier this year.
What struck me more than anything were the images of his temporary store. See below:
I’ve written before about how we can take better advantage of our pavement space (http://newurbanismblog.com/manage-pavement-space-fun/) , and how even our alleys and lanes can become fun and interesting places. A recent blog post from Sightline Daily does an excellent job of detailing this phenomenon in the Pacific Northwest. All of our cities have [...]
A recurring theme of this blog is that we miss so many opportunities to better utilize excess pavement space that so many of our cities and towns have.
In some cases, that simply means we should reduce or remove travel lanes in favor of more on-street parking, wider sidewalks or better provisions for street trees. [...]
We’re obsessed with big: big houses, big churches, big cars, big stores, big food portions. It’s in our nature I suppose to be impressed with size.
When planning for our communities, though, it’s often best to think small. Not small as in small goals or dreams; but small as in the kinds of spaces that [...]
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Kevin Klinkenberg reviews Kansas City street design and the importance of getting the details right. By comparing and contrasting two sections of Westport Road, he looks at how each of the street designs work, the details of each and then show why one is so much better than the other.
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