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Miami buzzing about parking exeption to help small buildings, additions,...
[Re-blogged from Miami Urbanist writer Felipe Azenha] Minimum parking requirements are killing good urban development in Miami. Luckily, there has been a push to eliminate parking requirements for...
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Mid-rise mixed-use: ULI global award to Cincinnati building: 11-story,...
From Urban Land writer Daniel Lobo: “The 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati is a contemporary art museum, 156-room boutique hotel, restaurant, spa, and rooftop bar in the heart of downtown Cincinnati. The...
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Chico, CA small-scale infill residential breaks from sprawl, sets new...
From Better Cities & Towns writer Robert Steuteville: “A 22-unit apartment complex of four small buildings was finished in May of 2014 in Chico, CA, completing the traditional neighborhood...
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“Blighted” incremental development without parking generates 41% more...
From Strong Towns writer Charles Marohn: “The Taco John’s versus the ‘old and blighted’ story is one of the most compelling that we share in our Curbside Chat. Here you have two blocks that are...
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Lima, Peru narrow apt bldg has 4 units, contemporary style, daylight in every...
From architects Oscar Malaspina, Rodrigo Apolaya, and Rosa Aguirre via Arch Daily “The city of Lima is experiencing a real estate boom. In the past two years, approximately 40,000 dwellings have been...
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Headline (and article) impossible to improve: “Atlanta not world-class city”,...
From Creative Loafing writer Matt Garbett: “There’s nothing like living in a ‘world-class’ city. And by some accounts, Atlantans do. Attend any ground breaking or ribbon cutting or read a politico’s...
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“Goldilocks density”: not too low, not too high, efficient and better people...
From Guardian writer Lloyd Alter: “In New York, sleek new towers for the tenth of the 1% are rising through previously sacrosanct height limits. Critic Michael Kimmelman sums up the problem in one...
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Company helps investment in portfolio of small neighborhood buildings by even...
From Bloomberg writer Jonathan LaMantia on the subject of CityShares: “Investors who pledge at least $100,000 to one of the program’s neighborhood-focused funds become partial owners of a group of...
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Coral Gables Museum presents exhibit of new small building designs, FREE...
From the Coral Gables Museum website: “All Buildings Great & Small is an exhibit of new building designs for a better city. Exhibited works include drawings and models of new building prototypes...
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ULI Southeast Florida dinner is debutante ball for Miami urbanism and...
Last night the ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean Vision Awards was a debutante ball for Miami urbanism and adaptive reuse: Lifetime Achievement was given posthumously to Tony Goldman, private sector...
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Exemplary small mixed-use urban project proposed for Miami, earns praises...
I try to write about built projects only. For every great small urban project that is proposed, there are 100 reasons why it might not get built. I prefer to spend my time writing about all the...
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