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For those who have read Witold Rybczynski’s Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, the following story reveals what adding the housing market crash to cornfield-new urbanism looks like. Last Harvest covered the events surrounding the conversion of a cornfield west of Philadelphia into a neotraditional, new urbanist, or simply how-things-use-to-fly-and-that-we-really-like, neighborhood. But again, the cornfield/exurban [...]
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For those who have read Witold Rybczynski’s Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, the following story reveals what adding the housing market crash to cornfield-new urbanism looks like. Last Harvest covered the events surrounding the conversion of a cornfield west of Philadelphia into a neotraditional, new urbanist, or simply how-things-use-to-fly-and-that-we-really-like, neighborhood. But again, the cornfield/exurban [...]
For some reason or another people seem to associate cities with socialism and suburbs with the capitalist American dream. The notion that the strong middle class created American suburbia has been engraved in our minds for all of recent American history. Contrary to popular belief however, it wasn’t always like this. In fact, as far [...]
Imagine everything is new, bright and shiny. Imagine this new is something that also keeps you out, pushes you away, and finds you abandoning the place you once called home. When the poor in society are pushed away from where they once were due to a combination of a lack in planning on their behalf, [...]
Towards the end of last year I had the opportunity to produce a blog feature for CBS Detroit called Defend Your Ride (which is why there was a bit of a lull in posting for a while). The segment is being done in numerous cities around the country and I was called on to head [...]
Across the street is a partially run down home, with the front screen door off its hinges, peeling paint all around the house, and a partially collapsed garage door. This is the site you see outside your front window every day. What you also see are the kids that leave for school every morning from [...]
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