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Hard Constants: Sustainability and the American City is now available 8 Feb 2013 | 11:19 pm
City Mayors Foundation of London has published Hard Constants: Sustainability and the American City. A free e-book is available for download through their website: http://www.citymayors.com/sections/...
Thank You and New Book 6 Dec 2012 | 11:42 pm
Thank you for your comments. The blog posts have been revised and form the basis of a new book, Hard Constants: Sustainability and the American City, which will be published by the City Mayors Fou...
Sustainability and People in Movement 13 Oct 2012 | 03:56 pm
Sustainability is about balancing the needs of people with the needs of the environment, including the built environment. When people are relatively fixed in an urban environment, a sense of place an...
Democracy and Sustainability 17 Aug 2012 | 10:27 pm
We hear about spaces that are smart and intelligent, buildings that breathe and dance, and building materials that grow and communicate. We take it all in stride. Urban planning and architecture, af...
Sustainability and People in Movement 23 Jul 2012 | 04:55 am
Sustainability is about balancing the needs of people with the needs of the environment, including the built environment. When people are relatively fixed in an urban environment, a sense of place an...
Form or Function? 20 Jul 2012 | 12:33 am
How should the shape of a building relate to its use? The question has perplexed architects since what “is” became separate from what “ought to be”. Many years ago, people’s behavior was prescribed ...
The Mass Media and the Business of Cities 2 Jul 2012 | 09:16 am
Consider the daily newspaper that crusades for new affordable housing in a poor urban neighborhood, which will trap residents in a geography of poverty but do nothing for the city’s economic developme...
Uneven Development 15 Jun 2012 | 01:46 am
Why do some cities (and regions and countries) thrive and others decline? The answer that immediately popped into your head probably has something to do with “development” or “lack of development”. ...
Economic Development 1 Jun 2012 | 01:59 am
Economic development strategies in the United States include increasing the skill level of workers, decreasing regulations, modernizing infrastructure, and providing direct financial subsidies to busi...
Architecture, the Mass Media, and the Transmission of Culture 15 May 2012 | 12:50 am
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity”, Lewis Mumford famously wrot...
