Looks like the plummeting housing market has given a new lease of life to agriculture in the ‘burbs and exurbs.’ Related: “U.S. Farmers Reclaim Land From Developers,” by Robbie Whelan at The Wall Street Journal
In the old days a ‘blurb’ was a positive promotional recommendation statement on a book jacket. I have done a few myself. Now we are informed by the developer of Civita, an urban infill project in San Diego, that ‘blurb’ really means a cross between suburban and urban. Are they going to put a picture [...]
Jonathan V. Last has written an excellent article on natality in America and why we have few large families now, whereas 50 years ago they were very common. (I can testify, being of a certain age myself, that I as an only child was very unusual in my own childhood.) While I do not have [...]
One reason to be a Red Sox fan is that they were the one team to rehab their stadium without using any government money – and this in blue big-government Massachusetts! Mark Yost describes this in the Wall Street Journal and then some letters say that Fenway Park isn’t really that great after all. They [...]
Ah, so the real reason people with kids live in different places than people without kids – it’s hard to find a three bedroom place in the hip parts of town. In Response To: “A Return to City Life After 20 Suburban Years” by C.W. Nevius for SFGate.com
The territory of Incorporated cities in Georgia is often circular, giving a stroking appearance on the map. They do not cover most of the urbanized territory. I would guess that half of Atlanta’s population of 5.9 million lives directly under one of the 20 county governments. There is a City of Atlanta, but it accounts for less than [...]
As I take more of the tours provided by the New Urbanism conference I am attending, I get to find out some of the attractive and interesting things about Atlanta. It’s easy to dismiss: “Sprawlanta” When people from here want to see a really urban environment, they go visit LA Phoenix, Arizona, without Arizona Washington [...]