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MILES of pedestrian-oriented street: Why is it that the most pedestrian-oriented streets in the U.S. are
The modern businessperson – the ‘minipreneur: It’s becoming an eBay world as the heirs to the rat race
What’s next? ‘Customer-made’ places: We all have opinions on how we’d improve the places we live,
More choices = more successful downtowns?: If there’s more variety and choice, will people purchase less or more?
Johns Hopkins’ urban research village: Universities are starting to respond to the long-time reality that people simply
Columbia University’s very urban village: Seeking to grow, but with no room to do so, Columbia University
ASU’s grand university town vision: The most vibrant, thriving town centers and main streets occur near universities,
Columbus gets a cool university village: In continuation of yesterday’s entry on built examples of the ‘next university’,
Built examples of the future of universities: In 2003 I presented a vision for how contemporary universities will blend
Free money’ for CoolTown projects: Say you want to develop a $10 million CoolTown development – transforming
The one ‘how-to’ book to get for ‘New Urbanism: While New Urbanism is more about placemaking than economic development, and a
Why can’t we have places like this?: Why not? Count how many cars there are. Zero. Ironically, it’s designed