A Planner’s work in the Garden City of the Emirates

A Planner’s work in the Garden City of the Emirates

by | Apr 18, 2016 | Planning

This article appeared in the APA International Division’s newsletter (2016 pre-conference issue), called A Planner’s work… It contains a reference to Steve’s white paper, Impending revolution in planning practice It’s always interesting to...
Sâo Paulo

Sâo Paulo

by | Jan 2, 2016 | Cities

I traveled several times to Brazil during the early 2000s and made good friends in Sâo Paulo. I became fascinated with Brazil’s great industrial city, so immense, so dense, so vast and spread out like a huge human hive. I had never seen such a thing. In 2004...
Vienna

Vienna

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Cities

After visiting Milan, I went to see friend Dave Stein in Vienna and fell in love with the old imperial city. Dave, a grad school colleague now living there, knows the city and its transportation system very well. We wrote Vienna Turns Again to the East for Urban Land...
Rhythm in motion

Rhythm in motion

by | Jan 1, 2016 | People & Places

One night I went to a party in an artist’s apartment in Pilsen. It was a little basement apartment crowded with people and the guy’s paintings. A dancer came from behind curtains. Stepping onto a little carpet, she went into a long, slow, strange, gyrating...
What I learned at Terra Madre

What I learned at Terra Madre

by | Jan 1, 2016 | People & Places

I received a journalism fellowship in ’04 to traverse Europe’s farm markets, but I couldn’t break away til the autumn of ’06. I saw cows, goats and pigs in five countries and talked to farmers who let boar eat acorns in the forest. I learned...