May 12, 2022
Environmental Works is a nonprofit Community Design Center directed founded in Seattle, Washington (1997). EW’s…
May 12, 2022
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Logical arguments in Latin began will over 2,000 years ago and faded along with the…
April 11, 2022
April 6, 2022
This is an odd post to do at this time. The thoughts of all on…
April 6, 2022
March 16, 2022
In an all-encompassing life of research and study of the architecture profession, Robert Gutman (1926-2007)…
March 16, 2022
February 26, 2022
In February 2022 an opinion article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy was offered to its…
February 26, 2022
February 25, 2022
Community Design Community Design’s institutional development history began in the 1970s (here). Its practitioners continue…
February 25, 2022
February 18, 2022
Kavita Nandini Ramdas has departed after four months as president and CEO of the $473 million Nathan Cummings Foundation. If…
February 18, 2022
February 17, 2022
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January 31, 2022
The Graham Foundation is well known for its contributions to the work of architects and…
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January 30, 2022
Carbon Free Buildings Initiative The Growth in the use of the word “must’ has become…
January 30, 2022
January 26, 2022
Combining ideas about systems of thinking needed to explain something is often based on principles…
January 26, 2022
January 11, 2022
For every concerned adult, it is the same old story and it can cause emotional…
January 11, 2022
December 24, 2021
On December 16, 2021, New York City’s Municipal Art Societ (MAS) published Towards Comprehensive Planning:…
December 24, 2021
December 24, 2021
In all communication find concrete words. Concrete words are essential to the discussion of issues. …
December 24, 2021
December 24, 2021
“Planning as a process is extremely important and has to be done at multiple scales:…
December 24, 2021
December 10, 2021
The argument for hearing out a democratic socialist will occur because we are headed there…
December 10, 2021
December 10, 2021
The Voluntary Inclusionary Housing Program (VIH) provides a bonus floor area if the developer creates…
December 10, 2021
December 6, 2021
Jack Dangermond is the founder and president of Esri, a geographic information system software company approaching…
December 6, 2021
December 4, 2021
Other than the occasional declaration of a national park, housing produces the largest demand for…
December 4, 2021
November 27, 2021
The White Chair Prompt The photographer’s relationship to architecture equips us with a possibility —…
November 27, 2021
November 9, 2021
“The demonizing rhetoric of the various international wars on terrorism, drugs, and crime is so…
November 9, 2021
November 5, 2021
On September 18, 2007, the school at 2274-86 Church Avenue became a New York City…
November 5, 2021
October 21, 2021
The Albemarle-Kenmore Terrace Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission…
October 21, 2021
October 1, 2021
“Hurricane Ida devastatingly impacted our area, the urgency to understand this kind of threat and…
October 1, 2021
September 24, 2021
Providing community-based development organizations (CBDO) with insight into strategies of service for specific client constituencies…
September 24, 2021
September 24, 2021
“Even Texas, the state that added the most housing units, showed decreases in more than…
September 24, 2021
September 20, 2021
The current public investment scheme is labeled the American Jobs Plan (here). A primary purpose…
September 20, 2021
September 1, 2021
Are you a member of one of these organizations – on the staff, a resident,…
September 1, 2021
August 30, 2021
Dr. Christopher Jones is a Professor at UC Berkeley and the Director of the CoolClimate…
August 30, 2021
August 20, 2021
Read “I’m On Hold” by Alex Cornell on Genius Forgive the ads — I love this…
August 20, 2021
August 12, 2021
Living places are no longer designed or defined by individuals expected to be permanent or…
August 12, 2021
July 12, 2021
The B Lab Company (B Lab) is a nonprofit (IRS Form 990 N.E.C. (W99) that…
July 12, 2021
June 20, 2021
and Benign Violations Everything changed when the screen eye brought the horror of the world…
June 20, 2021
June 20, 2021
“The purpose of this section is unified by one-word ‘extinction.’ It is a daily event…
June 20, 2021
June 20, 2021
“New Yorkers, if the ride isn’t killing us; the megabytes might.” These three books are…
June 20, 2021
June 18, 2021
Set aside the question of how much of the earth can or should be urbanized.…
June 18, 2021
June 18, 2021
Obama defines the problem extremely well. He actually answers the question about how and why…
June 18, 2021
June 18, 2021
11 Ways the EPA Has Helped Americans March 17, 2017 by John Light This post…
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June 17, 2021
Making way for the Vehicular Pedestrian will be more than a critical mass issue due…
June 17, 2021
June 14, 2021
The differences between fully institutionalized poorness such as that established by prisons or prison-like conditions…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
Established in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the Cabinet’s role is to advise…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
The World Game Report (1969) shows Buckminster Fuller before a map he designed to eliminate distortion and…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
Changes in weather or global averages in sea levels and temperature from year to year…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
Personal growth is the main stimulant of culture and a balancing agent against the excesses…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
Our one purpose is to participate in a forum on the complexity of urban density…
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
Jane Jacobs’ first reference to density called out the mixed-use character of Boston’s North End…
June 14, 2021
June 13, 2021
MoMA, New York, Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal The American city…
June 13, 2021
June 12, 2021
The Montagues & The Chobans I was a director of a community service department at…
June 12, 2021
June 10, 2021
Introduction Everyone’s neighborhood is the representation of national issues. The issues reported here describe how…
June 10, 2021
June 4, 2021
The facts are friendly, the main argument thereafter is proof among scientists and a unified…
June 4, 2021
June 3, 2021
The Global Roads Inventory Project (GRIP) dataset describes 60 geospatial datasets on road infrastructure worldwide,…
June 3, 2021
June 3, 2021
Black Rock City In 2010, Black Rock City (aka Harveywood) was the fourth largest city…
June 3, 2021
June 3, 2021
Twentieth-century urban and technological development events represent immense power. Yet, whether they are judged superficial,…
June 3, 2021
June 1, 2021
Ten percent of Planetizen’s Top 100 Public Spaces in the United States were in New York…
June 1, 2021
May 31, 2021
A lemniscate is a beautiful shape, easily recognized as a figure eight or an infinity…
May 31, 2021
May 25, 2021
A resource on strategies for volunteers and professionals serving nonprofit organizations in Brooklyn.
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May 18, 2021
This Fight is Our Fight “We used it all—tax policy, investments in public education, new…
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
Self-fulfilling prophecies are tangible, especially destructive ones. In this sense, the assignment of evolutionary principles…
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
Rules for Revolutionaries We know that every action has an alternative that can be opposite…
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
Challenging smart-growth-talk has seemed impotent until recently. Perhaps this is why it might change. A decade…
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May 17, 2021
“You are not a profession that has distinguished itself by your social and civic contributions…
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May 13, 2021
Meaning is in People Alain Bertaud is an inquisitor. He pokes at data with experience and…
May 13, 2021
May 11, 2021
The major networks C-Span, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc., are plentiful. Those who broadcast to…
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April 30, 2021
New York Magazine 2006 One World Trade Center was expected to incorporate a high level…
April 30, 2021
April 30, 2021
Course of Action If criticism is a method that gets to the truth, then so…
April 30, 2021
April 27, 2021
There is a need for a political review channel covering Congressional Districts 7, 8 and…
April 27, 2021
March 24, 2021
In each post below, The Report seeks observations of how the relationship between the powerful…
March 24, 2021
March 21, 2021
Strategic Planning by a Community District Board What if a Community Board decided they wanted…
March 21, 2021
March 19, 2021
In 1968 the Citizen’s Housing and Planning Council of New York (CHPC) produced a little…
March 19, 2021
March 9, 2021
Based on viewing numbers alone and with no other consideration, it is time to pay…
March 9, 2021
February 24, 2021
One Take…Subcommittee on Capital Budget and Committee on Land Use The underlying theme in the…
February 24, 2021
February 21, 2021
Political people, perhaps more than many others, live in a dichotomous world. They run for…
February 21, 2021
February 17, 2021
The Wicked Problem Plan Financial crises, health care, hunger, income disparity, obesity, poverty, terrorism, and…
February 17, 2021
February 15, 2021
Strategies A Story of Megadevelopment Impact Zoning is used to protect people. Today it exists…
February 15, 2021
February 11, 2021
National Organization of Women Equal Rights Advocates National Women’s Law Center National Partnership for Women…
February 11, 2021
February 9, 2021
There are nearly one-half-million students of higher education and over 1.1 million students in the…
February 9, 2021
February 8, 2021
Two forces are at work in the continuing creation of NYC. First-force is energy aimed…
February 8, 2021
February 2, 2021
Thanks for the comments, edits, and recommendations — no one is as smart as all…
February 2, 2021
February 1, 2021
New York City is not the center of the universe. Recognizing that it contains the…
February 1, 2021
January 23, 2021
The analysis of public response to the Great Recession of 2008 reveals those errors compounded…
January 23, 2021
January 18, 2021
What are additional efforts needed to curb the American Super Power to make fools of…
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January 13, 2021
When reforms and laws are passed to ensure that armed agents of the state cannot…
January 13, 2021