by ronb | Jan 25, 2023 | Solutions
Food has been a staple ingredient of urban vitality ever since cities were established as market centers, trading posts and transportation hubs. With the big downtown department store on the endangered species list and most city center shopping districts long gone,...
by ronb | Jan 11, 2023 | Solutions
With so much attention focused on how to repurpose out-of-favor office buildings into much needed housing and other uses, experiences in Los Angeles, Dallas, New York and Philadelphia show two decades worth of converting offices into housing. LA’s traditional...
by ronb | Oct 19, 2022 | Solutions
Will San Francisco’s downtown adjacent Mission Bay neighborhood finally see the school that was promised almost 25 years ago now that hundreds of once hopeful families have fled the city due to the school board’s failure to act? It’s a topic we covered in a preview...
by ronb | Sep 7, 2022 | Solutions
We trace the evolution of North American cities through the lenses of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh rather than bounce all around North America, which might give our viewers where-are-we-now whiplash. If there’s one city that serves as a living laboratory...
by ronb | Aug 24, 2022 | Solutions
The goal of making cities better places is nothing new. While affordable housing, inadequate infrastructure and social and economic inequities are some of the problems facing today’s cities, these issues have bedeviled planners and policymakers, and builders and...
