Conversations about #BuildingBetterBurb are gaining traction. Learn the design process w the Sprawl Repair Manual – islandpress.org/book/sprawl-re… Also, check out Beske and Dixon’s excellent new book Suburban Remix: Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places. islandpress.org/books/suburban…

The drivers of New Urbanism over its evolution -Andrés Duany #cnu27 #cnuopen

Stranger Things is Getting a New Mall! But Today Malls Are Dying. What Happened? video.wired.com/watch/stranger… via WIRED

Here's a breakdown of #formbasedcodes by state/province/country. 728 codes in progress, of which 439 are adopted. Huge shout out to Matthew John Lambert Hazel Borys & Emily Talen for keeping track with their Codes Study! PlaceMakers, LLC buff.ly/2JHshtc

19-30 Segment 1: A Shifting Landscape: The Challenges Facing Suburbia Today viewpointsradio.org/2019/07/28/19-… via Viewpoints Radio

Foundation of walkability is the mixed use street grid. In Nanaimo retrofitting suburbs where there isn't an old Main St would start at the shopping mall. City negotiates w/ corporate mall owner expropriation for a short block grid + allow for small lot mixed use redevelopment.

In European cities, they have piazzas, places, and squares—where people meet. In our cities, we have intersections—where cars meet. To bring urban conviviality to North America, start with the piazza ...it's the short-cut to building community and civic life.

More on the topic of Apple’s headquarters - my angst from a few years ago but still relevant sprawlrepair.com/2011/09/12/not… #SiliconValley #officecampus #urbanism #sprawlrepair #buildbetterburb

This Innovative Suburb Once Seemed Like a Failure washingtonian.com/2018/04/25/ken…

"sprawl repair *can* be done in certain places, but it’s a fool’s errand to think it can be done at scale." Kevin Klinkenberg 's challenging words. ow.ly/XRsn30jUHmv We'll examine what's possible at several suburban-centric sessions during #CNU26 cnu.org/cnu26

Excited to moderate this panel on Friday #CNU26 in Savannah! dan reed 🦀🏳️‍🌈🇬🇾👋🏾 Social capital + inclusion + #sprawlretrofit #retrofittingsuburbia Build a Better Burb Congress for the New Urbanism Sprawl Repair Will talk about #WyandanchRising and #Daybreak and #silverspring

“Colorful paint doesn’t hurt people, geometry does.” Anthony Garcia, @Streetpaln #CNU26 #TacticalUrbanism (Image: Chicago Tribune)

“Illiterate lumberjacks” built beautiful cities without zoning codes, tax breaks, 30-year mortgages, grueling aproval processes, enormous planning departments and droves of engineers, planners and consultants. They just copied time-proven principles. Charles Marohn at #CNU26

Are you at #CNU26 in #Savannah? Don't miss the Thursday afternoon session, "Who Is Reinventing the #Suburbs," 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM in Pulaski at the DeSoto Hotel

Justice is not just procedural. It's also about our feeling that we belong. --Julian Agyeman #CNU26

Urban planning is managing our coexistence in shared space. Healy, 1997, via Julian Agyeman #CNU26

Spatial justice: how do we allocate rights in urban space? ~ Julian Agyeman #CNU26

"We must think about humane-scales, not just human-scaled planning". Julian Agyeman #CNU26

Spatial justice requires life chances are not distributed geographically. We have spatially unjust cities today. ~ Julian Agyeman #CNU26

Urban planning needs to be about what is possible, not what is probable -Julian Agyeman #CNU26