For urban planning, as long as you define a specific goal for a 15-minute exercise, you can actually get somewhere. The issue here isn’t that the time is too short. The issue is that the goal is too vague. Many…
A rough urban design sketch can teach a lot, but only if the feedback on it is specific enough to be useful. Beginners often show a plan and ask, “What do you think?” That question usually leads to vague reactions…
I find that a lot of people new to urban planning are just sort of… floating around it, instead of actually practicing it. If you’re reading about walkability and density and mixed use and public space and so on, you’re…
It is not always easy to make sense of a city block. The streets are confusing. The buildings are irregular. There is open space, seemingly, randomly, amidst the buildings. And nothing is apparent about why the block was configured this…