Guest Commentaries

This morning over at Atlantic Cities, Richard Florida aptly refuted an opinion piece by Kevin Meagher that appeared in the Guardian last week advocating for doing away with the position of Mayor [...]

A new direction forward for transportation in east Charlotte. Overbudget and long-running road construction projects are common fodder for political cartoonists and water cooler banter. For [...]

I'm writing from the audience of a presentation this morning in the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City. The presentation will cover the initial observations and recommendations of a national team of [...]

If you can make it past rhetoric around healthcare, abortion, collective bargaining, and immigration, the November 8th election results tell a more cohesive and calming story about American’s [...]

In April 2009, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan spoke to the ULI Spring Council Forum in Atlanta; he stated that his administration’s goal was “to put the UD back in HUD,” and explained that HUD’s [...]

Friday night was the opening day of the 2010 meeting of the Mayors Innovation Project in Washington. At that night’s dinner reception, the keynote speaker was Xavier de Souza Briggs, who serves [...]

I'm watching local Rochester-area advocates respond to presentations by three panelists on the subject of "Community Food Supply and Environmental Justice" at the Association for Community Design [...]

I’d been obsessed with it ever since I saw The Princess and the Warrior. (Between that and the funicular in Flashdance, there is just something about bad-ass chicks that commute via unique [...]

As you may have heard in yesterday's Planetizen Podcast, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine doesn't like cul-de-sacs. Most news reports on the story have claimed that the state is "forbidding," [...]