Web and app developer. Coffee, beer, and running, in any order.
more units of housing anywhere are generally good. What isn’t so good is piling more people into neighborhoods where driving is essentially required. This choice creates congestion while diminishing the very things people crave about cities
If we really want our cities to be financially strong, equitable, and beautiful containers for human life, we should seriously question this [auto-centric design] status quo. And we can start that process by examining the values and expectations embedded in cars as tools…
I’m whatever type of urbanist that wants a coffee shop within a pleasant walk from my house. Change the zoning, density, whatever needs to be done for that to be possible.
More than half a century of urban planning prioritizing sprawl has gotten us to where we are now: choked by endless freeways, benumbed by carbon-copy strip malls, secluded in catchpenny houses with no sense of human scale.
Kate Wagner critiques the USian commitment to “endless consumption” through the lens of the prolific McMansion.
How do you light a fire under Montanans? Tell them that “Montana is exactly where Los Angeles was 100 years ago and we need to avoid that future.”
Wow, very impressive, Montana.