Suburbia Revisited

Suburbia Revisited

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Planning

Planners are now devoted to building up little cities around rail stations, and if that can be done in metro Dallas it can be done anywhere. The movement toward station density was just getting started when I wrote Suburbia Revisited.
Milan

Milan

by | Dec 31, 2015 | Cities

I visited Milan in early 2002 to see the city’s many historic layers and its ongoing transformation. With help from friend and interpreter Chiara Pelizzoni, we conducted interviews with planners, developers, and academics to learn about the city’s place in...
Fazenda Fortaleza

Fazenda Fortaleza

by | Dec 31, 2015 | People & Places

I visited the estate several times while working in Sâo Paulo during autumn ’04 (spring in Brazil). It’s a big, old coffee estate that Marcos Croce was striving to return to old organic ways of cultivating coffee. And even to improve the forest and the...
Growing Change

Growing Change

by | Dec 31, 2015 | Planning

A profile of a farmer that appeared in Illinois Issues, April 2003. Growing Change portrays a farmer who’s struggle with nature to conserve his soil is much easier than his struggle with commodity markets.
At the City’s Edges

At the City’s Edges

by | Dec 31, 2015 | Planning

A guest essay appearing in Illinois Issues, October 2000, in which I call for a regional dialogue on farmland, to consider farmland as land, which in those days of booming development was unlikely. I argue for farmland at the city’s edges.