To Remember Jane Jacobs, You’ve Got to Get Out and Walk
In 2007, a year after Jacobs died, some of her close friends in Toronto took a crack at creating a fitting homage—a living, breathing, walking, talking memorial called Jane’s Walk.
City Planning
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The general “messiness” of cities has been irritating urban theorists and planners for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that urbanists truly understood that it is just that messiness that gives cities their life.
Why Walkability Matters
Walking helps to cultivate community. Driving is an isolated mode of travel: it separates us physically from those around us, be they drivers, walkers, or bikers.
Taking the Permaculture Path to Community Resilience
Planners need to know about permaculture and use it as a framework to guide our communities.
Designing Resilient Cities
Resilience has recently become a recurrent term in the urban design debate, predominantly in connection with climate change and natural disasters.
Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form – Book Review
To anyone who’s tired of fighting an uphill battle in arguing for increased density in order to make the case for walkability, Julie Campoli’s new book Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form will seem a god-send.