If you don't get involved in the planning of your city, it will be planned for you. Much of it already has been.
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When affordability meets flexibility, the result tends to be the democratization of a local real estate market.
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If planners learn to determine what the public will is and apply themselves in service to that public will, our municipalities can be that much closer to towns well planned.
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If zoning codes are the primary tool in a planner's toolbox, that's a problem. Here's a three part system that would offer a better way for planners to design cities.
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Wes Craiglow is pushing for more productive land use and a better per acre return on investment in his town of Conway, AR.
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Jane Jacobs’ critique of the orthodox urban planning tradition unfolds in three steps, closely following F.A. Hayek’s argument in The Use of Knowledge in Society.
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Development is not meeting the demand for walkable neighborhoods.
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Tips and tricks for understanding zoning codes and starting out as a small scale developer.
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Thirty-seven years ago, some idiot decided to build a Kmart and accompanying monstrous parking lot right in the middle of a major street in the heart of the city, deadening any life on the street. Now it's finally going away.
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The decision to pursue a career in urban planning: what's the value of it in a world where we acknowledge the fundamental complexity and unmanageability of cities? Planners as the conservation biologists of the urban ecosystem.
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Committing to spending billions on our current approach to transportation is not courageous; it is cowardly. It will take far more courage to stand up, admit that we don’t know what we’re doing – that we’ve actually had it wrong for some time – and chart a new course, one that uses real data and feedback (not politics) to discern spending priorities.
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These nuances are lost when the top-down approach invades our planning. It's expensive and gives us a low return on investment. It's the type of system that would spend $50 million without realizing that they were trying to solve the wrong problem.
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Some of the best from contributor Andrew Price, including our favorite: Places and non-Places.
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Working from the top down, with efficiency as our greatest value, we can bring about great change in a short time with limited resources. What we give up with that approach is resiliency.
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