Since I last posted I’ve been very busy: I wrote about Miyazaki’s Urbanism for Strong Towns Five pieces in The American Conservative: Better Infrastructure, Not More Infrastrucure, about President Biden’s infrastructure plan; Against Master Developers is about, well, master developers; …
Writing in City Observatory, Joe Cortwright recently raised a good point regarding smart cities: so far, their solutions are neither very smart nor very useful. “Color us skeptical: It’s hard to see how we’ll make better decisions with even bigger…
My latest piece at The American Conservative, “Why Star Wars is better at urban planning than real planners“, was published February 28. It’s about how cities in movies are presented versus how they work in real life and that, frankly,…