During my early college studies in Architecture and Urban Design, I became loosely familiar with the ideas of Jane Jacobs, one of the most celebrated urbanist intellectuals. Sanford Ikeda’s FEE lectures [mp3] have inspired me to learn more about Jane Jacobs from a Free Market Urbanism point of view. Here’s an article by Professors Ikeda [...]
I’ve been swamped in my day job, but want to share the following:
The blog, Agents of Urbanism recently gave praise to Market Urbanism. Thanks Matthew! Please check out Agents of Urbanism and Life Without Buildings, which followed up on Agent of Urbanism’s praise. I enjoy both blogs.
Carl Close wrote How “Urban Renewal” [...]
Here’s a link to an interesting article by Scott Page at Planetizen called A Journalistic View of Cities
Scott discusses how mainstream journalists are poorly equipped to write appropriately on urban issues aside from than architecture.
I was reading the New York Times Magazine special architecture issue a few weeks ago when something jumped out at me. [...]
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