Traveling As An Urbanist | The Black Urbanist – Page 2

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 […]

Share Hey everyone. Hope you are having a great time at #CNU20 First of all, check out my travel story at Next American City. Then, be sure to follow me @blackurbanist on Twitter and Instagram for live tweets and shots. Tomorrow (Saturday), I’m presenting twice on the Civic Inferiority Complex. First at approximately 11:44 AM […]

Share Three major things are going on with me right now. The first is that I completed my masters of public affairs! For the last two years, I’ve been studying urban policy from the inside out with a wonderful group of classmates and challenging teachers. It was in an urban policy class that I decided […]

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.