portion of book cover for The Geography of Nowhere

How to Mess Up a Town

Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. The town where I live, Saratoga Springs, New York, like practically every…

Sharing burgers between two boats. Illustration by Marc Hughes for PlannersWeb

The Real Power of Small Businesses

…with others?” — James E Jardon, II, CEO JHT Incorporated and Medical Curriculum Technologies. Opening Keynote, 2013 Leadership Conference, International Economic Development Council. When boats lash up, they tie up to each other broadside (long…

Carmel's Main Street

Three Mayors, Three Cities

…in Salt Lake City’s 15th and 15th neighborhood commercial area. photo by LivingLandscapeArchitecture; Flickr creative commons. Carmel, Indiana Mayor James Brainard. photo by Wayne Senville. James Brainard is Mayor of a growing suburb of Indianapolis….

Bus in downtown Saratoga Springs, New York

Transit Challenges … and Opportunities

…a route is 60 minutes? If you guessed, “not many,” you’d be right. In the Tulsa, Oklahoma metro region, home to 780,000 people, transit has been more of an afterthought. As James Wagner, a planner…

plans for Slavic Village section of Cleveland, Ohio

Audacious … or Realistic?

…colonial Governor James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan for Savannah. As planning historian Laurence Gerckens observed in a short article on the origins of regional planning (“R is for Regional Planning“), “The plan … provided for Savannah’s…