Sharing a blog post from Jeffery Tompkins , an urban planner from Indianapolis. His blog, Thinking Big by Thinking Small recently had a post entitled "Why the Five-Over-One Feels Dead" . This is a thoughtful and thorough analysis of what makes a streetspace compelling and human. It is well worth a read for anyone grappling with why some blocks in your city or town feel good to you, and why others do not. Check it out! And for those Jan Gehl fans out there, here is a pertinent snippet from...

An interesting discussion between Andres Duany and Fernando Pages Ruiz about The Villages in Florida. Central to this chat is what new...

Sketch: Courtesy of Howard Blackson Leon Krier, a giant in architecture and urbanism and one of the intellectual founders of the New...