Tag: urban design

Debates about cities revolve around three prepositions, which have developed into two propositions. The prepositions are to, through, and around. ...

American urban design changed radically after World War II. Cars like wide roads. They’re noisy, they’re dirty. But we’re locked ...

I wouldn’t buy shares in Tesla right now. I wouldn’t buy shares in any car company. There are two reasons ...

We know that cars don’t scale. They won’t allow construction of dense cities. The average car is about 6 feet ...

DeKalb County is building Stalinist rectangular blocks surrounded by street-level parking. It’s a 21st century Pruitt-Igoe that will, by 2035, ...

A lot of the lifestyle improvements promised for this decade are being put off. Cities can’t be redesigned because giant ...

In practical terms this increases your “walkable” travel range from 1.5 miles to 5. That’s how far you can go ...

Instead of making cities more livable Instead I’m seeing a cry for “affordable housing” that’s building new ghettoes and exurban ...

I don’t own Tesla stock. Because the company is not ready for a Tesla world.

The changes being wrought by this new type of computing go much deeper than anything that has happened since the ...