City Council is scheduled to vote today on the East Riverside Corridor Master Plan .
Let's hope Council ignores the Planning Commission.
The Plan envisions the redevelopment of East Riverside as a New Urbanist corridor, built around four major transit hubs.
The hope, of course, is that the "transit" will someday be a light rail line connecting downtown and the airport.
But East Riverside is a natural place for redevelopment of this kind, with or without rail. East Riverside...
Reburbia
Jude points to the Reburbia competition, a design competition "dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs." From the competition website: In a future where limited natural resources will force...
Fixing Mueller's Town Center
There is a lot to like about Mueller. The streets are laid out in a grid with short, walkable blocks. Homes address the street. Garages are relegated to rear alleys. Row houses frame...
One New Urbanist community's battle for approval
See this account of a developer's struggle to gain approval for I'On, a New Urbanist community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, just outside Charleston:[T]he neighborhood is located in...
One New Urbanist community's battle for approval
See this account of a developer's struggle to gain approval for I'On, a New Urbanist community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, just outside Charleston:[T]he neighborhood is...
Did Simon Properties comply with the Domain incentive agreement?
City staff says it did. Here is the presentation (pdf) it made to Council last week. It struck me that the direct subsidies to the Domain retailers were actually quite paltry. The...
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