Earlier this month The Washington Post published an article called, There’s no such thing as a city that has run out of room. And what it was really about was that when we say there’s no more room (I guess people are saying this), we… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js Ed Glaeser, Giacomo Ponzetto, and Yimei Zou recently published a new academic paper called, Urban Networks: Spreading the Flow of Goods, People and Ideas. The paper looks at whether it’s more advantageous to build huge and consolidated mega-cities or build connected networks of smaller… Read More
Yesterday I wrote about urban-suburban divides within cities. And I argued that built form will largely dictate the kinds of transportation choices that people will ultimately make. As a follow-up to that, here is a chart based on the findings of a research report completed… Read More
Tram by Federico Venuda on 500px My friend Alex Bozikovic of the Globe and Mail recently wrote a great article called: Expert advice on building the city of the 21st century. It’s a nice tie-in to a post I wrote a few weeks ago talking… Read More
The “ground plane” is an important reference in architecture. The ground is typically where people walk. The ground is where our fabricated buildings meet the earth. And the ground is where our experience of the urban environment–however good or bad it may be–truly takes shape.… Read More
