Tag: retail
Retail Redemption: Skivvies Uncovered, then Promptly Covered
A couple months ago I rambled on here about my inability to purchase a particularly critical item of men’s apparel during an extended tour of new urban projects throughout the southeast. Modesty was not my problem. Rather, despite healthy commercial activity most everywhere I went, I could find no walkable stores catering... Continue Reading
Category Development, Planning and Design
How Trying Too Hard Messes Up Main Street
In taking on the foibles of our built environment, author James Howard Kunstler makes a point of noting that he’s neither an architect nor planner. Instead, he’s the everyman, and his profession is dutifully pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.
I’m in a similar position. I’m not an architect or planner... Continue Reading