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...

It’s Christmastime in Center City! And you would hardly know that from looking at the papers. The city’s best light shows this year, decl...

PLVI stands for P eak L and V alue I ntersection--that is, where, in the city, the rents are costliest. It is, for all intents and purpose...

Philaphilia and Philly Bricks , with their love of historical images, give us two looks at the development of Philadelphia from more or les...

I came across this excellent excerpt (p. 157 ff) from F. Donato and L.L. Basili's excellent 1996 text L'ordine nascosto dell'org...

Yesterday, commenting on Strong Towns, I commented on how jogging paths and crosswalks don't make up "walkability" and the Wal...

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...

This essay grew out of my brief page description on the subject. Honestly, I had no idea the psychology would run so deep...I just kept f...