John Cruz – Page 14 – The Urbanist Dispatch

London Traffic Light. Photo courtesy of doug88888 on Flickr

The road to everywhere: 3 ways we can fight congestion in urban cores

October 15, 2011

Since the automobile became king of the road in modern civilization, traffic congestion has been a problem in cities around the globe. 103 years after Ford's first Tin Lizzie found a parking spot, we still stru...

Houston – A Modern City (Map From 1912)

John Cruz

October 12, 2011

Maps

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I came across this great map today of Houston, Texas from 1912. The detail is fantastic, and you can clearly see the horses and light rail system. The map boasts that Houston is where "17 Railroads meet the sea...

One man’s trash is another man’s….Home? Or Park Perhaps!

John Cruz

October 5, 2011

Videos

In case you haven't heard, they do things a little differently out west. They always have. But the latest developments in Berkeley are even more interesting than one would think. Berkeley resident Gregory Kloeh...

Turkish Protest. Photo by turquoisedays on Flickr.

Parks, Open Space, and the Right to Revolution

John Cruz

October 1, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Sustainability

The Bill of Rights of the New Hampshire Constitution, Article X, reads: 10. Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private inter...

How does one rebuild “trust” in Detroit?

John Cruz

September 28, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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Detroit is at a crossroads. We can take the opportunities we have been given and make something great, or we can continue to squabble away our future because we simply cannot get along with each other. The Detr...

Batty & Longley’s 1994 Book Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function is now available as a free PDF!

John Cruz

September 21, 2011

News

This is one that I am excited to get my hands on. Fractal Cities is very hard to find, and expensive when it is found. While I could spend entirely too much time editorializing it, I'm just going to send over t...

What exactly IS the DEGC looking to do with the old Tiger Stadium site?

John Cruz

September 17, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured, Sustainability

It seems that the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation has rejected yet another proposal to keep activity on the ball field of former Tiger Stadium. The stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was demolis...

Block Mother

John Cruz

September 14, 2011

Videos

I've been following DetroitBigfDeal's stream on vimeo lately and there's some interesting stuff on there. This latest video, even only a few minutes long, is a story about how as planners, we must never lose si...

Boardwalk Empire Train. Photo by SubwayNut.com

TV Politicians and Urban Improvements

John Cruz

September 10, 2011

Sustainability

Can fictional politicians be more effective than real politicians when it comes to urban beautification? That's the implicit question posed by cable network HBO at their TV Production Studio, when their latest ...

Detroit: A city on the move

John Cruz

September 9, 2011

Videos

Gotta love old videos about your city. This one is a view I discovered a few months ago talking about Detroit moving forward, it was a commercial for an unsuccessful Olympic games bid shot in 1965.The video is ...

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