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Kyle Ezell, Principal Designing Local, Ltd.

Beware of Widgets – The Case for Designing Local

Liz Hayden
August 28, 2014
Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development
Kyle Ezell, City and Regional Planning professor at Ohio State University, has recently written Designing Local: Revealing Our Truest Communities, which encourages urban planners and communities to move beyond ...
David Wondrich. Photo courtesy of ModelD

Dive bars, cocktails, and the soul of a city: A conversation with “mixographer” David Wondrich

John Notarianni
July 14, 2014
Culture
New York author and cocktail historian David Wondrich is at the center of the resurgent American cocktail movement. His book "Imbibe!" is widely regarded as one of its foundational texts. As a correspondent for...
Liberty Plaza. Photo by Doug Coombe

Perfect Park Potential: The Case for Liberty Plaza, Part 2

Natalie Burg
June 26, 2014
Sustainability
What makes for a great public space? Last week, we explored the idea that Liberty Plaza, while undoubtedly a problematic space today, deserves just as much — if not more — consideration as a place with incredib...
Big game of Jenga in Five Points Alley

Urban alleys become pathways to revitalization

Eric Peterson
April 30, 2014
Community and Neighborhoods
This might just be the most desolate alley in Denver. Under the Evans Avenue Bridge and a stone's throw from the railroad tracks, this is an absolutely forgotten urban place, complete with the requisite tire...
Shreveport

Places in the Making: New MIT Research on Placemaking Reveals the Power of Community Engagement in Design of Public Spaces

John Cruz
October 23, 2013
Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, News
Today a new white paper was released by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the subject of Placemaking. The team is headed by faculty Susan Silberberg, w...

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