As necessary as it is to point out where improvements are needed, it is also important to highlight our successes.
Tag: Phoenix
A Mallrat Repents
Malls R Us is a provocative documentary that looks at North America’s love affair will the mall.
Suicide Lanes Kill Communities
This is the text of a letter to the editor I wrote in June 2008.
Opportunity Mirage
Phoenix doesn’t need another marketing campaign or branding effort. We need live up to our name and rise from the ashes of our past bad decisions.
CityScape: Suburbanizing Downtown Phoenix
In Phoenix’s desperate attempt to attract suburban tourists downtown, the city is morphing downtown into a suburb itself.
What is Placemaking?
Placemaking is “creating a sense of place and a place of sense”
10 Reasons Why Civic Space Park Doesn’t Work
Despite being a great place on paper, Civic Space Park has yet to live up to it’s promise as a great urban space for downtown Phoenix.
I ❤ Phoenix, Volume I
For, me however, Valentine’s day is linked to another important event: It was three years ago today that I made the move to Phoenix
‘Schelling’ the City
The other day I asked a simple question on Twitter and Facebook…
The Evolution of the Gold Spot
Gold Spot in downtown Phoenix incorporates many urbanist principles, such as adaptive reuse, street presence, mixed use and density.