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Share So your clothes are dirty. The hamper is overflowing. No big deal right? The washer and dryer are in the closet. Or maybe you have to lug them downstairs, but nevertheless,  laundry machines are never too far away. Unless you are me and living in Downtown Greensboro, without the rental machines that cost way […]

ShareFrom my observations, downtowns across America live and die by their arts institutions. I know this is the case in Greensboro. We are currently debating the need for a new performing arts center downtown, thanks to the need to update our current civic center auditorium and the opportunity to pay down debts. Yet, if we […]

Share I had no intention of leaving the blog idle for this long. Yet, occasionally, living the actual life of an urbanist gets in the way of being able to write about it. Yet while away from my urbanist pen, I was able to experience two key events that I think have major significance in […]

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.