Here are a few of my favorite articles and posts from the past week:
- Losing Touch With the Changing Definition of “Community” A perspective on the impact of the internet on how we define community, and the impact that this could have on the structure on local governments.
It Takes Great Places to Create Great Architecture The role of placemaking in fostering better and more creative urban design and architecture.
- Parking is Required to Diet In honor of Park(ing) Day, this article is the first in a series that will looks at the relationship between parking and urban development.
- “Any place can become a park” A look at some of the more unlikely parks in New York City.  Great inspiration!
- Fighting For The Right To Bike To School A look a the disturbing impacts that North America’s obsession with cars has had on what used to be a childhood rite of passage.