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ShareLast night at one of our many grad student gatherings, we were teasing one of the girls for having to drive through the ghetto to get home. I was really cringing on the inside, because I feel like no neighborhood is the ghetto by default. There is rundown housing, drug drops and violent crime everywhere […]

ShareI was riding down the road and noticed a billboard advertising a shoe store. This shoe store used to be on the High Point Rd Corridor but now has moved across town to the Battleground Ave. corridor. Funny thing is, both shopping centers are unsustainable (in environmentalist terms) strip malls, that are at least 25 […]

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.