Tag: affordable housing

Punk Rock and the New Urbanism: Getting back to basics

Scott Doyon
Scott Doyon Twitter Instagram Facebook February 2, 2012
By the early to mid 1970s, something was wrong with rock and roll. It no longer fought the system. Worse than that, it had become the system. Bloated. Detached. Pretentious. Performer and audience, once fused in a mutual quest to stick it to the man, now existed on separate planes --  an increasingly complacent... Continue Reading
Category Development, Planning and Design, Public Policy, Resilience
Tags affordable housing, aging in place, Bob Gibbs, Bruce Tolar, Charles Marohn, charrette, Chuck Marohn, cottage living, cottage square, cottages, katrina cottage, Principles of Urban Retail, Scott Doyon, Strong Towns, town center
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Get Real or Get Rich: Lessons for an era of limited trust

Ben Brown
Ben Brown May 5, 2011
It’s a great time to be really rich or really smart. It’s never hurt, of course, to be able to tap into big bucks or big brains. It’s just that penalties for having access to neither are rising dramatically. What got me to thinking in this direction was an exhaustive investigative report in last Sunday’s... Continue Reading
Category Public Policy
Tags affordable housing, Ben Brown, HUD, Pew Research Center, Sustainable Communities Initiative, trust
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