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The World After Campus

I refuse to accept my best days of Walkability were in college.

May 23 •

Gioia Calabretta

April 2025

The Urbanist Media Guide

You are what you eat. So, what’s in your feed?

Apr 16 •

Emerging New Urbanists

March 2025

Restoring Value: How Adaptive Reuse Benefits Communities

How we can breathe new life into old spaces—and why it matters.

Mar 6 •

February 2025

The Foothill Catalog Foundation: A New Model for Wildfire Recovery

As the smoke clears from recently contained wildfires, a full picture of what has been lost in Los Angeles County is coming into focus.

Feb 3 •

December 2024

Incremental housing density coming to British Columbia

In November 2023, the Province of British Columba, Canada made a landmark policy change to promote housing.

Dec 18, 2024 •

November 2024

Bringing Back Building Types: Conservation Biology, or Jurassic Park? (Part 1)

You have to admit it: vanished species that used to fill the globe have a certain appeal.

Nov 2, 2024 •

October 2024

5 Reasons Why Urban Practitioners Should Care About Resilience

Last week as this post was scheduled to go out, I stood overlooking my quaint small town where 12+ feet of water was rushing through our Main Street.

Oct 3, 2024 •

Taylor Schenker

August 2024

Activation & Intervention: Two Sides of the Tactical Urbanism Coin

Setting the stage for, and learning from tactical urbansim

Aug 23, 2024 •

July 2024

Transforming LA’s Sprawl: A Community Call to Action

Home to 3.9 million people [i], the city of Los Angeles is often thought of as a car-centric, sprawling city.

Jul 22, 2024 •

May 2024

Competing against Suburbia: Why new urbanism hasn’t caught on as a reliable model of development and two solutions.

If urbanists, academics, and planners agree that New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs) are the best form of residential…

May 31, 2024 •

April 2024

Urban Career Advice from the Inside

No one has all the secrets, but here are some tips on how to progress in the field and overcome barriers.

Apr 30, 2024 •

March 2024

Reflecting on the Impact of my Heroes (Part II: Jacobs)

In Part I of this article, I posed the question that if Jane Jacobs and Frederick Law Olmsted are agreed to be two of the most influential urbanists in…

Mar 18, 2024 •

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