Tag: Urbanism
The Localist Theory of Charles Marohn’s Wonderfully Practical Strong Towns
This past weekend, I took a group of students up to the annual...
Rethinking the Good City: Vallejo’s Bold Vision
What Americans Want in Cities
What makes a good city? I’ve been thinking a lot about this. What makes...
Local Identity and Cities In-Between
2018 has been a busy year for those of us who aspire to--or are...
What Kind of Democracy Do Localists Want?
Last week the United States went through another one of our regular, mostly ritualized exercises in mass democracy. What did (or should) localists think...
Urban Questions (and Responses) for Krugman
Over a month ago, Paul Krugman used his space at The New York Times to ask "what, in the modern economy, are small cities...
After Trump #1: Getting Urbanists and Localists Together
So at the beginning of the month, when I finally got my election reflections out of my system, I concluded by re-iterating what I...
Anarchism, Global Citites, and a Confucian Cosmopolitan Education
I recently attended a conference in Nanjing, China, hosted by the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and organized our fellow Porcher, Adam Webb. You can read a...
Jane Jacobs: A Symposium
The American Conservative has published a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of the...