Placemaking: creating a sense of place and a place of sense.
Category: Urbanism
Posts related to cities and urban areas, their geography, economies, politics, social characteristics, as well as the effects on, and caused by, the built environment.
Books for the Amateur Urbanist
Jane Jacob’s book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, tops the list (fitting as it was itself written by an amateur urbanist)
President Obama on Jane Jacobs
Barack Obama answers a question from a man about urban renewal in Toledo, Ohio on August 31, 2008.