Aftercar > ready to launch
(ideas.work.) Aftercar is a work in progress, but we’re opening anyway on April 1 – yes, April Fools Day is a fitting start. I want to give a special shoutout […]
Gravel > do something now.
(ideas. press.) Georgia law protects Stone Mountain’s racist Confederate carving but there are still things we can do now. I wrote this Op-Ed for The Guardian and they ran it […]
Gravel > listen to better ideas
(ideas.) We didn’t get to this place in American history by chance and we’re not going to get out of it easily. We’ll never move forward if we only listen to the people who built and support the systems and institutions that hold us here. We need new ideas. We […]
Gravel > 20 years later, damn proud.
(ideas.) Twenty years ago, I never imagined we would actually build the Atlanta Beltline. I just wanted to graduate – which I did. I finished my Beltline thesis in December […]
Gravel > time for Generator.
(ideas.) At the end of this post, I’m going to ask you to help Generator get off the ground with a tax-deductible donation. I believe in this concept more than […]
Gravel > Learning From Sprawl
(idea.videos.) Here’s a short video (00:03:04) that my colleagues and I put together called “Learning From Sprawl.” It explores the cultural motivations for today’s sprawl, then connects the dots to […]
Spacing > “what are Toronto’s most promising arteries for transformation?”
(press.) Here’s a follow-up Q&A to the first story – an interview with Claire Nelischer of the Centre for City Ecology and Anna Hill with Park People, “Infrastructure and our way of life: lessons from the Atlanta BeltLine.” Excerpt: “AH: From what you’ve seen and heard during your time in […]
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