Comments on: Urban Design After Oil

By: Businessincomes4u

Businessincomes4u — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:34:54 +0000

I’m thinking of your walk down Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street. With its is narrow streets, designed before cars. The older buildings have tall windows that all open for fresh air. Many of the stores are vacant, and many of their upper floors appear to be too. A few are being converted to apartments, but there is a lot of space here under used. There are stores that could be reopened, upper floors that could be converted, adapted and renovated; there are roofs that could be inhabited or covered with solar collectors. There are parking lots that could be used. Yes there is a lot of life left in the old parts of our city’s where we can create businessincomes4u.co.uk and nurture back to life these great areas in which to live work and play

There is a lot of excess capacity here and as the recession does its work there will be a lot more. There is excess capacity all over. I wish more people would talk about it.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:58:28 +0000

Thank you for this beautifully constructed an dense blog. As an Urban Studies student i found this extremely helpful in understanding different aspects that occur during these urban planning projects. I don’t completely understand why they are truly necessary since each city is different in their way of planning. There is no way all these cities can truly be planned in the same consistency but none the less i am sure there is some similarities. I was extremely happy to see Jane Jacobs attended for the mere reason that she is one of the core people involved in Urban Studies and a true inspiration. I really enjoyed your site and am excited to hear more. Feel free to comment on my classmates and my blog http://urbsctmzl.blogspot.com/

Thank you again
Lorraine

By: Sirinya Tritipeskul

Sirinya Tritipeskul — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:17:56 +0000

Dear Professor Randy,
I enjoyed skimming this entry. But I what I really needed to express is that I’m sorry to hear about your cat. Why didn’t you tell us this in class? We could have tried to geocode places your cat would have escaped to.
Your favorite student,
Sirinya

By: Bomee Jung

Bomee Jung — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:58:02 +0000

I want to invite you (and your readers) to join in on the discussion that a few of us (urg...newly-minted) planners are having about how planning practice and planning education might change if we thought of it as an Open Source exercise: OpenSourcePlanning.org -- ie. one in which we gave as much thought to building platforms for empowering other actors as we did about making good plans. Thanks in advance for your feedback!

By: T.H. Culhane

T.H. Culhane — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:57:17 +0000

I will heed your call and leave comments for more general readers on the Next American City site, but wanted to congratulate you here on an absolutely fascinating summary of the events and issues, delivered, as ever, with the light and incisive humor that makes your posts so fun to read, and a great (and as you mentioned “non-judgemental”) way of addressing the gaps. For those of us who couldn’t attend this was a great way of following you around from one well chosen session to another. Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:56:17 +0000