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The Social Impacts of Urban Containment
November 23, 2008
You want a more prosperous, less segregated, more attractive metropolitan area? Draw a line around it.
Urban Tidbit #5: Should federal bailouts require smart growth?
November 20, 2008
According to Peter Katz, “We now have information one could ‘take to the bank’ in the form of ‘smart growth’ underwriting standards to push qualified projects to the front of the line for speedy loan approval.”
URBAN CLASSICS #2 Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
November 09, 2008
How do you categorize the unique, the incomparable? Rayner Banham doesn’t try. What he does is more useful and more difficult: he actually sees what he’s looking at.
Getting Density Right: Tools for Creating Vibrant Compact Development
November 03, 2008
More people on the same amount of ground? The Urban Land Institute thinks it can happen here. If ULI is right and if the various policies it describes continue to spread, they’ll make room for architects and urban designers to do more creative work to improve urban life at all levels of density.
