Community – The Urbanist Dispatch

Kyle Ezell, Principal Designing Local, Ltd.

Beware of Widgets – The Case for Designing Local

August 28, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development

Kyle Ezell, City and Regional Planning professor at Ohio State University, has recently written Designing Local: Revealing Our Truest Communities, which encourages urban planners and communities to move beyond ...

Vander Ende-Onderdonk House. Photo by SReed99342 on Flickr.

Good Neighbors

Melissa Mahony

August 13, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods

The walk from the subway to my house in an industrial neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens is rarely pleasant. Big rigs noisily block intersections; delivery vans parked helter-skelter on the sidew...

Inside Rainbow Mansion coliving community: Alexander Van Dijk

11 Affordable Housing Alternatives for City Dwellers

Cat Johnson

July 30, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods

After World War II, white, middle-class Americans flocked to the suburbs from the city. Today, that trend is reversing. As post-suburbanites move back into cities, escalating housing costs are forcing low and m...

What smart cities can learn from Pittsburgh

Erin Keane Scott

June 23, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture

With a culture of collaboration, a willingness to change and a focus on creating the kind of urban environment that attracts creative talent, the Steel City has moved from gritty to green and is now poised for ...

Planet Residential Park photo by Photo Dean on Flickr.

Community Land Trusts

John Cruz

May 19, 2014

Infographics, Visual Data

How do Community Land Trusts work? This infographic from Democracy Collaborative breaks it down for us. Click to view full screen. Community Land Trusts...

Think Before You Demolish: Balancing Preservation with the Bulldozer

David Mieksztyn

January 7, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured

They don’t build them like they used to. It’s a sentiment expressed broadly across all kinds of segments of our society, but perhaps it is no more physically noticeable than when it comes to housing. And let’...

Pensions, Art and Water in Detroit Bankruptcy

James Courtney

December 9, 2013

Policy

Diego Rivera Mural at the DIA. Photo courtesy of Michigan.org Detroit is bankrupt. The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), however, is doing well, increasing its attendance by approximately 30% (460,000 to 600...

Cleveland Avenue Neighborhood (Winston-Salem North Carolina) revitalization master plan.

HUD Hands out $4 million in Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants

John Cruz

November 22, 2013

News

The U.S. Government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that nine communities around the country would be recipients of the 2013 Choice Neighborhood Planning grants. Grant proposals we...

Montreal’s 21 Swings

John Cruz

November 20, 2013

Videos

This is really cool. Every spring in Montreal these swings are put in place where people can swing, wait for the bus, and make music. The Quartier Des Spectacles website says: The first thing you must know ...

A tea party on parking day 2013 in Hartford Conn. Photo by grhartfordarts on Flickr.

Guerrilla Urbanism: Parking Day

John Cruz

September 26, 2013

Community and Neighborhoods

Urbanism comes in many forms; but it's not always a philanthropic foundation, business, non-profit, or government entity that makes things happen. Guerrilla Urbanism is the practice of re-claiming an already in...

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