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A KC Christmas Special: Baseball, Parking & Infill Development

Do we know what "urbanism" even means?

Oh, the irony

Urbanists: Our Blind Spots Limit the Success of our Cities

12 Reasons to Love the American Grid, and Doug Allen

What do Fenway Park, Notre Dame, and barking dogs have in common?

Reforming our culture of building, one brick at a time

Are we drifting back towards 1910?

Diane Botwin: Transmogrifier

Going Deeper on Pre-Approved Plans

City Comforts, Revisited

Three Priorities for Place Management

Live, from Akron, Ohio

Writing the Story for Your City or Town

Rebuilding South Bend

Creating a Wonderful Life

Loving the Great River, and its Towns

The Next Urbanism

Marina Khoury Does it All

For the Humans: Talking about joy, cities and mental health

Planners: Learn to Love America

Hard Lessons are Good Lessons to Learn

Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses

Ask yourself, "Why am I Doing This?"

Bringing Some Tough Love to Rookie Developers

How does big change happen?

So you want to be a City Planner?

Follow your... anger? Nathan Norris talks about moving from law and the military to New Urbanism

Bringing the Strong Towns Message to Texas

Policy Wonk to Infill Developer

To car-free or not to car-free?

A question for Readers

Being the Change in Your Community

Bernice Radle & Monte Anderson: Getting Started in Small-Scale Development

Designing Downtown Baseball in Kansas City

Dan Parolek: Finding the Missing Middle

Be More General(ist)

An Ode to Paul Harvey

Weekend Update

Tim Busse: A New Town, 20 Years Old

Johnny Sanphillippo: Are you granola or shotgun?

Making Incremental Change in Kansas City

Travelogue: Oklahoma City

Talking The Original Green and More with Steve Mouzon

What is a Messy City?

Progress isn't Inevitable

Good Enough Isn't Good Enough

Missouri's $6 Billion Dilemma

Gateway to Hell

Granny gets her revenge

Dad

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