Posts Tagged ‘density’
More Market-Rate Housing Means More Market-Rate Housing, Not Cheaper Housing
By Timothy Vollmer from Ann Arbor, USA - noe valley looking to mission/bernal heights, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3334964 At PLAN-Boulder County’s annual dinner on September, 23, 2016, San Francisco community [...]
The Guardian | Who owns our cities – and why this urban takeover should concern us all
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/24/who-owns-our-cities-and-why-this-urban-takeover-should-concern-us-all "The corporatising of access and control over urban land has extended not only to high-end urban sites, but also to the land [...]
Does Boulder Have Too Many Jobs?
Does Boulder have too many jobs? If you are out of work, then Boulder needs at least one more job. If you are a commercial developer then Boulder needs as many jobs as you can convince the planning department to let you squeeze onto your particular [...]
A Transportation Vision For Boulder—Economics of Transportation, Part 3
Editor’s note: Throughout the summer we will run a serialized version of PLAN-Boulder County’s A Transportation Vision for Boulder. This is part 3 of section 1. To read the entire paper, start with the Introduction. Congestion, [...]
A Transportation Vision For Boulder—Economics of Transportation, Part 2
Editor’s note: Throughout the summer we will run a serialized version of PLAN-Boulder County’s A Transportation Vision for Boulder. This is part 2 of section 1. To read the entire paper, start with the Introduction. Safeway parking lot [...]
A Transportation Vision For Boulder—Economics of Transportation, Part 1
Double left turn intersection at Pearl and 28th, Boulder, Colorado. Photo by Dom Nozzi Editor’s note: Throughout the summer we will run a serialized version of PLAN-Boulder County’s A Transportation Vision for Boulder. This is part 1 of [...]
A Transportation Vision For Boulder—Introduction
Editor’s note: Throughout the summer we will run a serialized version of PLAN-Boulder County’s A Transportation Vision for Boulder. This is the introduction. Pearl Street Mall, June 2015, Boulder, Colorado. Photo by Dom Nozzi Many [...]
Citizen Participation in Boulder: Real or Charade?
2010 aerial photo by Doc Searls (flickr creative commons https://flic.kr/p/8UoZod) Anyone who’s paying attention knows that there has been a lot of controversy surrounding citizen engagement efforts in connection with the city’s “Housing [...]
Safety First!
I love living in a dense, urban environment. I've lived in the urban core of both Amsterdam and San Francisco for extended periods, where I enjoyed the ability to walk to work, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. I cherish the human contact [...]
WATCH: How to Make an Attractive City
"If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to." Joseph Campbell
