Share I’m thankful for businesses like Aptera Inc. who have decided to move to downtown Fort Wayne and support our urban core. But downtown Fort Wayne isn’t the only urban business district around here. If you want to do business — or open a business — in a close-knit, walkable, multi-use community, you could also [...]
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What is the most crying need of the church in America today?
Share Here is how Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, answers the question, emphasizing the importance of cities: I’m throwing in with Jim Boice on this one (cf. his Two Cities: Two Loves.) The evangelical church must stay true to its biblical foundations, and it must maintain and enhance the [...]
‘Urban excitement is possible close to home’
Share This comment by Michael Bates of BatesLine in Tulsa was too good to be ignored: Two generations have been raised to see the tidy segments of the suburbs as normal and the city as a messy mix that needs sorting out. That’s starting to change, and a significant number of people have experienced the [...]
Philip Bess: What is a city for?
Share Now that I found my notes, I can make some hopefully intelligent comments about Philip Bess’s interesting, although two-hour long, lecture on Wednesday. And since it’s already late, I’ll make this an introduction to a series of short posts about his lecture and ideas. But first, I must mention that it was too bad [...]
Great article: ‘Urban Paradox’
Share (Jon) Today I have the pleasure of pointing you to an excellent summation of what we’re hoping to accomplish here at The Good City. This article, called “Urban Paradox: Reconnecting Church and the City,” was published in byFaith magazine and written to a more general Christian audience, so it starts with a bedrock Biblical [...]
Allowing a city to look like a city
Share Most zoning codes in America no longer allow you to build what you’d call a traditional urban cityscape — mixed-use buildings, constructed up to the sidewalk, with retail below and apartments above. For the most part, such zoning was written right after World War II, when America was high on automobiles, highways and suburbs. [...]
Read ‘The Three Rules,’ and tell the author what you think
Share To those who love our city, here’s your assignment: First: Understand The Three Rules. David Sucher loves cities. He hopes to foster what he calls “urban villages,” cities that are vibrantly urban but yet also in some way cozy and neighborly. Kinda like what many of us want in Fort Wayne. His Three Rules [...]
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