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An Essay on Civic Beauty

July 7, 2009

I published an essay on Civic Beauty and Placemaking over on the Living Urbanism blog. The idea for this essay came from the last year or so of experience working on Great Kennedy Plaza in Providence. During this project, I have had the pleasure of interacting with Fred and Ethan Kent from Project for Public [...]

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Volume 2 of Living Urbanism Just Published

July 3, 2009

We just posted the 2nd volume of Living Urbanism to the web. The print edition will hopefully be available next week. Check out the essays here. A big thanks needs to be given to all the contributors. It has been a real pleasure working with them over the past year. The publication would not be possible [...]

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Energy Independence

May 6, 2009

(via Rebranding America)

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“Beginning to Rethink Our Human Habitat” at Pecha Kucha Providence

March 19, 2009

My friend Stephanie Ewens was kind enough to shoot this video of my presentation at the first Pecha Kucha Night in Providence. I was amazed at how much thought needed to go into a 6 minute 40 second talk. It was super fun to give, but has opened up a lot more questions that I [...]

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1st Pecha Kucha Night Providence is this Wednesday

March 10, 2009

I am looking forward to giving my 400 second talk this wednesday night at Pecha Kucha Night. Big thanks to Local 121 for hosting the event. The talk I am giving is on how we should begin to rethink the design of our built and natural environment. Should be fun.

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Design Tip: Rail Transportation as Green Landscaping

January 28, 2009

There has been some recent buzz about this interesting pattern in Europe. I have been thinking that as a piece of Living Urbanism the pattern of landscaping tramways could be improved by using native ground covers. Rain gardens could be added to catch storm water run off as well. You can see more photos here [...]

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Question: Why are there so few public houses in America?

January 10, 2009

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How to Grow Sustainably in New England

January 6, 2009

My friend Kara Wilbur shared this list with me. We are working on expanding the list of challenges with the hopes that we can have a good conversation about them at the Sustainable Urbanism Summit in April. How to grow sustainably? Problems we face in New England when it comes to meeting this challenge? 1. [...]

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CNU New England Urban Design Workshops

December 11, 2008

CNU New England’s “301 Urban Design Workshops” start tomorrow in Providence. I will be helping instruct two of the events with Bill Dennis, Don Powers and Rick Chellman. Thanks a bunch to our partners, Maine Association of Planners, 1000 Friends of Connecticut and Grow Smart RI, for helping make the workshops possible.

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