From arbitrary restrictions to overly harsh penalties, many homeowners associations (HOAs) do little to endear themselves to their neighborhoods. But your city may have more responsibility for these conditions than you realize.
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Small-scale, incremental development works in the suburbs too, if we let it.
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Building to last is the only thing we can afford to do. The social and environmental costs of disposable buildings are far too high.
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By building disposable structures, we are leading ourselves toward a socially, economically, and environmentally ruinous future.
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The recent tragedy in Surfside, Florida, is both a harbinger of things to come and emblematic of the nation’s larger problem with maintaining our built environment.
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The Suburban Experiment creates an illusion of wealth early on, which makes it very seductive. As a city like Baxter, MN enters the second life cycle and all of the dispersed systems that came with the growth now need costly maintenance, the seductive illusion is slowly destroyed.
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We need a common understanding of how to know whether or not a local government investment is "actually working."
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