By Erick Villagomez
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 6
Developing Alternatives Let’s assume that we’ve managed to develop clear, meaningful objectives that have been made more comprehensive through connecting...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 5
Weighting Goals and Objectives Now that we have a sense of how to approach setting usable goals and objectives for city-wide planning and criteria to...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 4
Planning Goals and Objectives – Criteria In light of the common shortcomings described earlier, let’s consider a list of criteria that should be met...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 3
Planning Goals and Objectives – Shortcomings The usefulness of the methods and techniques described in Common City Planning Initiatives revolves...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 2
Common City Planning Initiatives We would be forgiven if our initial reaction to the nature of the contemporary city described in Part 1 is to run away...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 1
Can city design be good? Few would doubt that they can, yet an honest answer must be tentative. It must pry into city planning, objectives, and the...
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Book Review – The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
Author: Brent D. Ryan (MIT Press, 2017) Contemporary cities are the most complex entities humanity has ever created. To be sure, we are only beginning to...
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Book Review – Inventing Future Cities
Author: Michael Batty (MIT Press, 2018) Given the state of the world, it is fair to say that the future of cities is intimately intertwined with the...
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Book Review – Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Author: Shannon Mattern (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) There is little doubt that the influx of digital technologies is altering our understanding...
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Book Review – Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Author: Stefan Al (Island Press, 2018) Many of our world’s urban centres lie along the shores of oceans and seas. As areas of rapid urbanization...
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Book Review – Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Author: Reinier de Graaf (Harvard University Press, 2017) Architecture is a strange discipline, full of contradictions: it is at once simple and complex...
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The City of Illusions – Part 3
[Editors Note: This is a the third and final part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the...