Greensboro | The Black Urbanist – Page 12

Share  Recently the national-award winning, Duany Plater-Zyberk designed community of Southside in Greensboro lost a key tenant, Vintage 301. Outside of Manny’s Universal Café, this was the only restaurant in the neighborhood and only consistent draw of people outside of the small neighborhood inside. While there are a few hair salons and other small businesses […]

ShareYou either pay exorbitant amounts of money to it or you have moved to a community on purpose to get away from it. You probably want to get rid of it, especially if you want to tear out your front yard or save for retirement without watching that $300 a month go down the drain. […]

Urbanism should be second nature, not bound by jargon or complex activities.

ShareDuring a conversation at the recent Streetsblog training in Kansas City, I mentioned again the story of why the site […]

It shoudln’t be, but sadly, in many cities, it is.

Graham Sheridan, masters candidate in public administration at Brown University, takes my civic-infereiorty complex to task and demands that a city can and should have it all.

Because it happens just enough to both enchant us and drive us crazy.

Let’s not fall into the trap that mixed-use is only a building code or type.