Transportation plan for Cook County

Cook County once led the way in planning for and building the expressways that now run through the heart of the city. Continue reading

Baku

I occasionally travel to the Caucasus region and enjoy visiting the city of Baku. Continue reading

Masdar City combines ancient practice and modern technology

Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a very interesting attempt to build a low-carbon sustainable city in the Middle East. Far from creating a sudden Utopia, Continue reading

Frontier of form-based codes

Planning codes are interesting when applied in regional schemes, Continue reading

Let It Flow

My first published article was about the Coffee Creek conservation development in Indiana. Continue reading

The hitch in the plan

Illinois Issues, Nov ’06

This guest essay appeared in Illinois Issues shortly after the consolidation of the two regional agencies in Chicago. I argued that the underlying division remained and that regional planning would not become truly effective until internal unification of the whole agency under its board occurred. My opinion caused something of a stir evoking letters in response. My editor Peggy gave it the prescient title The hitch in the plan.

Thoughts on farmland

I was a young staff planner at NIPC working on the regional plan when, in winter 2003, I went up to McHenry County Continue reading

Local and Sacred

In late 2004 I received a Journalism Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund. Continue reading

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