Tag Archives: suburbs

The Case for Cities and Saving the World

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Scott Bonjukian

The Urbanist, a new Seattle-based website, offers compelling reasons for channeling human activities and development into cities. I’d like to add to their argument: cities are how we’re going to save the world. As developing countries rapidly catch up with … Continue reading →

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Parking-Free Development Making Appearances

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Scott Bonjukian

In the postwar decades of the 20th century American cities stood by their carefully calculated minimum parking requirements, resulting in underutilized land and encouragement of car travel. Planners outside of the largest cities have started to reverse this trend by … Continue reading →

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