Green Enhances Growth
…New development, old age, careless cutting, gypsy moths, utility companies, highway departments, and other culprits are all combining to slowly strip our communities of trees. For the most part people care about trees. As a…
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Billboards: The Case for Control
…the Charles Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development and is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC. McMahon is a frequent speaker at conferences on planning and land development. Over the…
Creating the Missing Hub: How Today’s Suburbs Build Town Centers
…Not housing; there’s plenty of that. Not gas stations, restaurants, and strip shopping; those abound, especially in suburbs that grew up after the Second World War. No, the ingredient missing from many suburbs is a…
Have It Your Way: Fast-Food Restaurant Design
…Sustainable Development and is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC. McMahon is a frequent speaker at conferences on planning and land development. Over the past 21 years, we’ve been…
Reflections on Portland: Transportation and Land Use & Dead Freeways
…have proven to be the key to economic development in the Pearl District. Portland’s streetcar line has helped fuel redevelopment in “the Pearl,” the city’s old warehouse district. The same is also happening in the…
Community Planning that Works
…audience laughed at pictures of cows drinking from bathtubs in the pasture and booed at images of strip development. Neighbors recognized each other in slides of gatherings on the town mall. The talk started. “Which…
Good Signs or Bad Signs in Indiana?
…and development — and I’ll touch on this later in this post. But I just happened to be in Elkhart County on the day the Plan Commission’s meeting was focusing on a proposed zoning amendment…
Gateways: Creating Civic Identity
…might be a real gate at the entrance to a country estate, a landscaped sign at the entrance to a new development, an arch over a neighborhood street, a park at a highway interchange, or…
Talking with Ed McMahon about “Billboards: The Case for Control”
Note from PCJ Editor Wayne Senville: Our Winter 2011 issue included an article by Ed McMahon, “Billboards: The Case for Control.” McMahon is a nationally renowned authority and speaker on sustainable development, land conservation, and…
How to Mess Up a Town
…of development entails. Ironically, the forces who are ready to permit the most radical damage to the town’s historic character consider themselves the most conservative. Ironically, the forces who are ready to permit the most…
What Makes A Town Center A Town Center
…the parking deck to the main street, and trash collection areas tidily fenced off and tucked away behind the storefronts. While they are far better than the alternative of strip shopping centers, regional malls, and…
