Suburban Skylines: A California Tech Town’s Growth Struggles
Cupertino, California is fighting against twinned challenges of sky-high housing prices, and an unwillingness of some residents to work to change that.
Read More
The Charming, Cross-Cultural Urban Space of The French Dispatch
We just watched Wes Anderson’s newest film, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, or, just The French
Read More
Book Review: How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan’s latest book wasn’t quite as mindblowing as the psychedelic experiences he describes in it, but it’s definitely a great read, especially for folks with no background in this particular subject matter.
Read More
Fall In Detroit!
Before the frost and the demise of all of the leaves, I managed to get out there and take a bunch of pictures of pretty things.
Read More
What To Do When The Client Says They Need More Parking
An uncomfortable situation in which the client wants to demolish buildings to add parking spaces. Let’s push back and say, “what about this other thing instead?”
Read MoreBook Review: The Code of Capital, by Katharina Pistor
A professor of law at Columbia University looks at the regulatory and legal frameworks that companies use to protect and aggrandize power, wealth, and intellectual property.
Read More
POCACITO Transatlantic Forum on Climate and Environmental Justice
New friends, old friends, and comrades, generally, in this most righteous struggle for climate and environmental justice, met up last week at the POCACITO Transatlantic Forum in Washington, DC.
Read More
People Deserve Beautiful Things
The SDBA program introduced an interesting discussion about design standards in renovation. It happens to be something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about.
Read More
The Death of Samantha Woll
The horrific murder of a prominent member of the Detroit Jewish community has left all of us completely shocked.
Read More
Why Parking Minimums Are Bad.
We can build cities for people, or we can build them for cars. Eliminating parking minimums, which require that off-street parking spaces be included in every development project, is a great way to move us toward the former after decades of moving toward the latter.
Read More