A reminder that NIMBYism really has nothing to do with homeowners' preferences for one kind of development over another. It's all about managing threats to property values:
Remember Seaside, the famous New Urbanist development by Andres Duany on the Florida panhandle -- symbol of the new approach to development and community? Another developer had the idea to create the same thing on a site next door, to be given the unfortunate name Watercolor but to be built according...
Circle C in Hyde Park
So after reading a long set of complaints on the hydeparkaustin yahoo group(*) about the city not adequately enforcing code regarding to unrelated occupants in 'McMansions' in Hyde Park, I...
My disingenuous sense is tingling
Allow me to present the SNAustin.org mayoral forum, with these humdingers: 1. This video shows you successful VMU projects and how nice their open spaces are and then says we need rules to...
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...
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