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Photo Adventure: Urbanism in Nassau

I visited Bahamas about a month ago. It’s hard not to notice the fascinating architecture and urbanism in Nassau. It’s one part British, one part Caribbean. Unfortunately, a lot of it is starting to...

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Downtown Mankato on a rainy weekend (Mobile Post)

This is the updated Heco Building (got nearly $43 million in subsidies by the way). The architecture is bad. I’m not sure what exactly is going on here, but it ain’t pretty. Notice the parking garage...

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Urban entertainment districts @ Salon.com

You can read a few quotes from myself over at Salon.com in a great piece by Will Doig. Will writes about cities in Salon and has some really stellar pieces (e.g.: Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest...

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Bill’s Skyway Revolution Tour

*A big thanks to Bill Lindeke (of Streets.MN and TC Sidewalks) for the great Minneapolis skyway tour (courtesy of the Soap Factory’s Common Room). Note: In real life, talk of revolution was light, but...

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Let’s End “Entertainment Districts”

I spent a weekend visiting a friend in the Old Market Warehouse District of downtown Omaha. Believe it or not, Omaha has some good urbanism. There is a solid urban form, nice architecture and it’s all...

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Getting Lean (The End of Big Block Development)

Urbanism, noun. 1. The magic created by cities. 2. The magic that creates cities.  Jude Stanion penned an urbanism call-to-arms at the Las Vegas Downtown Project blog this week. Stanion has some...

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