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The absence of place from Chinese cities
Foreign Policy just published an issue completely devoted to urban issues. Two in particular – both about China – caught my attention, mostly for the way in which they take different approaches to telling essentially the same story about place and its role in Chinese cities. Apparently, placemaking was not a significant priority for 20th-century […]
Places that never were, part 2
August 20, 2012
… only, unlike Kilamba, this one will remain empty by design: KEBLER PASS —There’s a new town in Colorado. It has about 50 buildings, including a saloon, a church, a jail, a firehouse, a livery and a train station. Soon, it will have a mansion on a hill so the town’s founder can look down on […]
Does every waterfront need an icon?
June 28, 2012
(Potentially the first of a series of posts on iconic waterfront structures throughout the US / world / known galaxy. I haven’t decided yet.) In one form or another, The Pier has been a part of the St. Petersburg waterfront for a long time. The actual pier has been around since the 1920s – it […]
What’s in the Big-Box? Increasingly, nothing
June 19, 2012
It’s been about a year since Borders Books & Music closed for good, and during that time many suburban shopping centers that rely on big-box stores like Borders have been having difficulties. There seems to have been a chain reaction after Borders closed, in which no new tenants stepped forward to fill the void left […]
The value of trees
June 8, 2012
Wealthier cities and neighborhoods have more trees than poor ones – so much so that you can apparently see the difference from space. The existence of this disparity isn’t news, exactly – the basic research on tree disparity between rich and poor neighborhoods was done a few years back. According to Tim De Chant at […]
Planning the future of my neighborhood
May 3, 2012
How will my neighborhood change over the next 20 years? What will it look like then? What should it look like? These are some of the questions my neighbors and I have been tackling lately, as we work on a brand new neighborhood plan. A rewrite is long overdue: The existing plan is over twenty […]
The sweet sound of placemaking
April 26, 2012
I used to work in a record store. It closed down over a year ago, after three decades in business. When it happened, there was much of the predictable hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth about how the old ways of buying music, the ways we grew up with and remembered so fondly, were living on […]
Location and place
April 24, 2012
In yesterday’s post I included a link to a letter written by a Detroit-area businessman explaining why he believes he may have to move his business out of southeastern Michigan. The letter’s author described Detroit’s inability to attract new workers from outside the region as having to do with poor “quality of place.” What does […]
Your host
August 22, 2012
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