Four months after city support for a community land trust in Buffalo’s large Black “Fruit Belt” neighborhood was announced, the City acts to begin to transfer an initial set of four properties to the community nonprofit’s control. The land trust forms one part of a broader community-guided strategic development plan.
These 10 questions, some of which are quite challenging and intriguing, give a pretty clear idea of what the nonprofit Strong Towns sees as critical to a strong, sustainable urban environment.
Sociologist Richard Sennett argues that learning to live well with people who are different is the most important challenge of our time.
The most famous name in urban planning is Jane Jacobs, yet women’s voices still are often buried, notes Katrina Johnson-Zimmerman in a critique of the maleness of the pop-urbanism circuit.
By removing lanes of concrete, city planners hope to encourage the development of new and improved mixed-use communities that will attract new residents and spur economic growth.
Concerned citizens, activists, and nonprofits have come to realize that there’s plenty to accomplish at the local level—both now and over the long term—and plenty of municipalities willing to help with or without support from the U.S. federal government.
As a New Orleans architect says, keep the water in: A proposed new water plan might better the environment while saving 11 billion dollars in costs.
Three Boston artists have been selected to lead six-month projects, each based in a different city department, and each with both art-making and problem-solving goals.
What can urban planners do in their daily work to undo the conditions that undergird the “New Jim Crow”?
