Frontier of form-based codes

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Planning codes are pretty dull stuff but I always like to see regional schemes. Continue reading

Let It Flow

Urban Land, June 2000

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

Thoughts on farmland

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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

A Different Kind of Recovery

Conscious Choice, April '02

An article published in Conscious Choice in April, 2002 about ideas of designer William McDonough. You may read the full article here.

Sustainable Suburbia

Conscious Choice, April '01

This article, subtitled The Beauty and the Promise of Conservation Design, appeared in Conscious Choice in Spring, 2001. I really believed we could build suburbs this way, in a delusion of naïve youth. Download the article here.