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“Most people believe the alternative to cars is better transit—in truth, it’s better neighborhoods.” 71

Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

A place-based intervention that leads to the greater desirability of a place—such as the expansion of transit, the greening of small park spaces, or the creating of a business improvement district—could also foster new housing or condominium developments, which would then increase the population in an area. Yet if an area doesn’t have a school syst

John MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning

Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…

Daniel Christian Wahl designforsustainability.medium.com

This order created uncoordinated systems that worked, without staff, as if by magic. Such was Jacobs’s “Sidewalk Ballet.” With density, she argued, came “eyes on the street,” a community-based security system that required neither barbed wire nor an extensive police presence. With wide sidewalks comes trusted interactions, even with strangers—a qua... See more

What’s Next for Jane Jacobs' Sidewalk Ballet?

The Frontier Interview: Kai B., a resident of Melbourne’s Nightingale Village

Brian Sholis magazine.frontier.is

Implementing active mobility in your neighborhood is an important step in achieving a humane and sustainable city.

The same is true in architecture: over-planned model cities rarely work as intended and are hard to love, whereas the best designs have built into them a capacity to adapt and evolve.

Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible

What is that balance? Better to ask: what do humans do? Work, shop, eat, drink, learn, recreate, convene, worship, heal, visit, celebrate, sleep: these are all activities that people should not have to leave downtown to accomplish. While there are exceptions, most large and midsized American downtowns possess a good supply of all of the above excep

Jeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Patrick Geddes, founder of environmental sociology and much else, described a more ideal city or ‘eutopia’ as lying ‘in the city around us; and it must be planned and realized [with] us as its citizens—each a citizen of both the actual and ideal city seen increasingly as one.’9 In his architectural designs for the city of Edinburgh, for example, he