Arcade Fire’s new album tackles suburban sprawl, providing compelling city planning commentary: With Arcade Fire’s latest album, urban planning has officially gone ‘pop’. (SPUR)
- Aesthetics and the City: Building Community: How a city’s aesthetic experience can amuse, start dialogue, inspire creative and, ultimately build community. (Huffington Post)
- Wrestling With Jane Jacobs: Bill Barnes of the National League of Cities argues that “we don’t need acolytes of Jane Jacobs; we need people who will think as hard and as well as she did about ‘the kind of problem a city is.’” (National League of Cities)
- Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say: How and why the era of ‘real restate as investment ‘is over… for good. (New York Times)
- Great Good Places: New restaurants that look like they’ve been part of their neighborhoods forever all share a subtle but ambitious social agenda: to create and celebrate community.(MetropolisMag.com)
