Frontier of form-based codes
Planning codes are interesting when applied in regional schemes, so I wrote this article for the APA Regional newsletter, Frontier of form-based codes. Whether the ‘floating zone’ towns and villages ever get built as planned is another story.Let It Flow
My first published article was about the Coffee Creek conservation development in Indiana. Let It Flow appeared in Urban Land, June 2000 issue. The year before, my last in graduate studies, a fellowship from the Urban Land Institute gave me an opportunity to write for...
A hitch in the plan
This guest essay appeared in Illinois Issues in 2006, 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 there was internal...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 and asked the Farm Bureau to put a public meeting together to talk about farmland. We assembled a large group for that meeting, which occurred on a...Books
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