Tag Archive for 'urbanism'

Suburbs Are the New Slum

Combining the subprime mortgage crisis, surveys indicating that only 1/3 of suburbanites are content with their living arrangement and current examples of degeneration in the ‘burbs, theAtlantic.com asks if the suburbs are indeed The Next Slum? (HT: Erika)

It’s a fairly well-written article which shies away from apocaylptic utterances, but I found that it was, in […]

Architecture and Urbanism Primer

My wife is educated in architecture and, over time, she has drilled it through my thick skull that the way that we arrange our cities has a profound effect upon our lives. In the words of Winston Churchill, “we shape our buildings, and our buildings shape us.”
Furthermore, as anyone who has spent any time with my […]



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