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Inaugural broadcast of my radio show

June 28, 2012

“Think Twice” airs Wednesdays at 6:00pm. If you’re local, you can tune in to KYMN 1080 AM; or listen online by clicking the “Listen Live” link on the KYMN website. Here’s the audio of yesterday’s broadcast, along with the show notes which link to the resources mentioned. Episode 001, 06/27/12 Show Notes:

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The CNU Webcasts Are Up

June 4, 2012

The webcasts from the Congress for the New Urbanism are now available online here.  I’m especially eager to watch the plenary session with Leon Krier, who’s one of my heroes. In addition to the plenaries, there are links to breakout sessions too. The ones of particular interest to me, based on their titles, are: Form-Based [...]

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“Urbanism” is a Misnomer

May 20, 2012

Being married to a guy who grew up in North Dakota has made me very aware that the word “urbanism” doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone.  As generally used and understood academically, urbanism is not about cities and city life per se (as opposed to villages, towns, suburbs, etc.);  rather it refers to the [...]

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2011 – off and running

February 2, 2011

Hey! How did it get to be February already? I’ve been so preoccupied with the Land Development Code, work demands, and family schedules that I didn’t do my Happy New Year post and 2010 recap.  Rather than trying to “catch up”, which I’ve learned is almost impossible, I’ll just jump right in with a few [...]

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Aspen Ideas Festival podcast picks

August 3, 2010

I’m working through some podcsts from last month’s Aspen Ideas Festival. My first pick is Richard Florida on “The Great Reset”. We have inherited an economy – and a set of institutions, management principles, a way of life – which at every level reflects the old industrial order, which has been collapsing before our very [...]

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Monday roundup

May 24, 2010

Continuing my weekly roundups, here’s the best of what I found/read last week: The Planning Commissioners Journal continued its Planning ABCs series with “R is for Regional”, which had some interesting highlights of prescient planning in America over the past few centuries. I particularly enjoyed reading about Ogilthorpe’s plan for Savannah, which set a framework [...]

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Roundup ~ last week’s best posts & resources

May 17, 2010

Here are my choices of the best of the best of my perusals last week. I don’t necessarily agree with everything here, but each post or article below did an excellent job of framing questions, brainstorming solutions, or just providing a different take from conventional wisdom. Let’s kick off with this post by Strong Towns [...]

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This week’s roundup

May 9, 2010

I find most of these articles and sites through RSS feeds I monitor or links sent via  Twitter.  (By the way, my new account there is @TracyDavis.)  I’m sharing them here because, if I don’t, many local readers may not see them, and they’re too good to miss. From the Associated Press (Madison, WI): On [...]

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