Tag: Chad Emerson

The Future of Municipal Planning 02: Learning from Success

Howard Blackson
Howard Blackson Twitter Instagram April 4, 2013
As the planning profession roils in the confluence of the 21st century’s Great Recession, Peak Oil/Peak Auto Travel, Millennial [Re]urbanization, and the borderline religious fervor of sustainability, I have officially declared that ours is not the same planning profession John Nolen built. So, how can planning rebuild... Continue Reading
Category Back of the Envelope, Development, Economic Development, Planning and Design
Tags Chad Emerson, Chuck Marohn, Howard Blackson, James Howard Kunstler, Joe Minicozzi, John Nolen
asteriskasteriskasterisk

The New Incrementalism

Howard Blackson
Howard Blackson Twitter Instagram October 10, 2012
The latest design trend appears to be designing a place to be realized in very gradual stages. Not in terms of planning for phases of development pods, built-out in a predetermined sequence, but about individual lots changing -- evolving -- over time. Very rarely now are we designing to build immediately for a project’s... Continue Reading
Category Architecture, Back of the Envelope, Development, Economic Development, Planning and Design
Tags Chad Emerson, cottage living, cottages, Hampstead, Howard Blackson, Hurricane Katrina, John Anderson, katrina cottage, Montgomery Alabama, Seaside, Steve Mouzon, Ted Smith
asteriskasteriskasterisk