streets.mn:
Some very thoughtful comments at the end of the piece!
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streets.mn:
Some very thoughtful comments at the end of the piece!
LA Times:
Mass transit was our past and it is our productive future.
CityLab:
In the tradition of observations of William Whyte.
CityLab:
One should tear it down for the opportunity for citizens to be close to the waterfront.
FiveThirtyEight:
Density makes a place vibrant. Density makes a city work. Density is the word and our answer to make better communities. Holly Whyte said "we are going to have to work with a much tighter pattern of spaces and development, and that our environment may be the better for it."
We need to confront the need for density. I've denied and deluded myself that density was not the main issue. I've used words like 'compact', 'vibrant', and 'urban'. What is meant is more people per unit area, as well as mixed use and class.
Higher density is better for a city. Again, Holly Whyte:
Urban Milwaukee:
The Conversation:
Strong Towns:
Charles Marohn is right to be infuriated with Minnesota's shoreland density requirements for cities -- all Minnesota citizens should be disappointed. The State's shoreland development standards are old. These standards are outdated with regard to lake protection, and they're inconsistent with good land use development principles and practices. When the Minnesota DNR attempted to revise the 1970-80s era standards several years ago, Governor Pawlenty dismissed them because, perhaps rightly, the public and local governments might not have accepted the shoreline buffer provisions that were proposed to protect water quality. Those proposed standards would have also allowed cities to use their own density standards provided that the area was served by sewer and proper stormwater controls. In Lakeshore Living, we speak to the changes that are necessary and how we could use sound place-making principles and good bottom-up community design. Charles Marohn helped me, a lake ecologist, better understand Strong Town principles. Thanks Charles!
The Atlantic:
How do you get people to live there? It often requires investing or restoring amenities.
New York Times:
Great pictures and a story that asks difficult questions challenging our paradigm of technical solutions to limits of nature.
Alana Semuels, writing for the Atlantic:
Derek Thompson, writing for CityLab - The Atlantic:
Dave Levitan, writing for Conservation Magazine: Conservation this Week:
Jane Jacobs's 1958 essay in The Exploding Metropolis:
Jane Jacobs received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to expand this critique of modernist planning and design on downtowns into a book, and in 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities was published.
Charles Marohn, writing for Strong Towns:
If into a social experiment you go without adapting, only pain will result when the experiment becomes unsustainable. Then the dark side will cloud everything.
Alana Semuel, reporting for the Atlantic:
Once you start down the path of decline, forever will it dominate your destiny, drain your coffers it will.
Eric Jaffe, writing for CityLabs:
In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge with a little less dependence on assumptions lights our way.
Bill Lindeke, writing for Streets.mn:
We must unlearn what we have learned with our failed suburban experiment.
Matt Hickman, writing for Mother Nature Network:
Mind what you have seen. Save you it can.
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