At the beginning of the year, Charlie Gardner at Old Urbanist   offered an academic's findings on zoning, especially where American pra...

Apex Urbanism is another excellent blog in the old urbanist vein, heavily influenced by Nathan Lewis and Charlie Gardner. Still fresh, it...

This emerged as a comment to this Old Urbanist post , but was rejected because of its length: So the conventional theory is dead wrong; t...

Archive trawling Nathaniel Hood's blog, I found this post with this interesting argument: To really understand the problem in 2011, y...

This image was taken from local blog Naked Philly , and is of über-narrow Kenilworth St. The houses are modernist in style--yet the charm ...

Nostalgia* has been behind almost every movement in urban planning. 1. City Beautiful . Nostalgia for the imperial center , as establishe...

Neighborhood Mystique is a semi-regular series on unheralded yet handsome neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Typical Belmont Village airlite...

The first thought I have on Old Urbanism is about street width. Old Urbanists--particularly Nathan Lewis and Charlie Gardner --argue that o...

In the comments to my post on grids , Charlie over at Old Urbanist suggested that I create a physical representation of my ideal city from ...

Expanding on a comment I made on this Old Urbanist post , I have provided a site design for four blocks offering a reasonable house for the...