(Jon) I’ve been reading “Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream,” and have been appreciating the authors’ analysis of suburban planning. Who knows if I’ll agree with their solutions. Here are some quotes from the beginning of the book: Since each piece of suburbia serves only one type of [...]
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Quotes on sprawl from ‘Suburban Nation’
by Jon Swerens on March 30, 2008, in Cul-de-sac culture, Urbanism, Where the sidewalk ends
Suburbia: The next slum?
by Jon Swerens on March 19, 2008, in Neighborhoods, Urbanism, Where the sidewalk ends
(Jon) Next American City points us toward a sobering article in The Atlantic about the effects of the subprime crisis on the nation’s suburbs. “The Next Slum?” says these changes “may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.” Here are some highlights: At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North [...]
The New Slum?
by Scott Greider on February 29, 2008, in Architecture, Community, Cul-de-sac culture, Downtown, Neighborhoods, Urbanism, Where the sidewalk ends
(Scott) Are suburbs the new slum? Great article at theatlantic.com. Especially page three, where the author predicts the future. For 60 years, Americans have pushed steadily into the suburbs, transforming the landscape and (until recently) leaving cities behind. But today the pendulum is swinging back toward urban living, and there are many reasons to believe [...]
The question of rural development
by Jon Swerens on December 14, 2007, in Architecture, Where the sidewalk ends
Before the week completely gets away from me, I should mention Kevin Leininger’s column in Saturday’s News-Sentinel with the headline “A battle over property rights.” Here’s the lead: Drive down most any road in rural Allen County and you’ll see them in increasing numbers: new homes scattered among the barns, fields, fences and old farmhouses. [...]
4 reasons to not bust a gaping hole into a historic theater
by Jon Swerens on September 20, 2007, in Downtown, Harrison Square, Where the sidewalk ends
Forget about building a downtown aquarium. Fort Wayne wants to build a suspended, over-the-street, glass-boxed, out-of-town-visitorium. In an effort to prevent convention goers from ever having to walk on an actual sidewalk, the folks building Harrison Square downtown want to carve a hole into the west side of the historic Embassy Theatre (actually, that side [...]
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