Tag: Transect
Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway: Green light for removal this week?
Hazel Borys 
June 6, 2015
June 6, 2015
Last week, passing my Canadian citizenship exam was a poignant moment for me. I am grateful to have dual citizenship in Canada and the US, with the right to live and work in both great countries. I realize that we often spend time on this blog talking about what stands in the way of great placemaking, but I enjoyed over... Continue Reading
PlaceMakers’ Intrepid Inside-Baseball Highlight Reel from CNU23
PlaceMakers 
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015
Having just wrapped up what may have been our favorite CNU ever, in Dallas on April 29 through May 2, we want to share some of the ideas that resonated the most with us. The topics below are snippets of great insights from many voices, including the likes of Andrés Duany, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, Doug Farr, and... Continue Reading
Ways to Fail at Form-Based Codes 03: Misapply the Transect (to the region rather than the neighborhood)
Hazel Borys May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013
When it comes to misapplying -- or, more commonly, overly simplifying -- the Transect, we’re all guilty on some level. For instance, I often speak generally about its inherent rural-to-urban spectrum and how, as you move through it, the landscape changes its character. The highways and byways whisking you through... Continue Reading
Healthy, or Unhealthy, by Design
Hazel Borys March 3, 2013
March 3, 2013
A few months ago, we talked about how a great city can be like a great running buddy, calling us to venture outdoors into more active, satisfying lifestyles. The photo-essay accompanying that conversation was on the urbanity of Wilmington, North Carolina. Last week, we were in another North Carolina town, Fuquay-Varina,... Continue Reading
Category Experience, Planning and Design
The Passion of Place
Hazel Borys June 6, 2012
June 6, 2012
David Byrne noted in last Sunday's NY Times that people get hooked on cycling because of pleasure, not health, money, or carbon footprint. "Emotional gratification trumps reason."
Ben Brown agrees, using Byrne's "Stop Making Sense" as a blog title on the subject of community engagement and how special interest groups... Continue Reading
Brave New Codes Reach Tipping Point: When, Where, Why?
Hazel Borys August 8, 2010
August 8, 2010
A year ago, Apple's sales of its iPhone and iPod Touch eclipsed 40 million units, confirming their potential to fundamentally retool our future opportunities and patterns of daily life.
Today, a year later, form-based codes hit a similar milestone, with similar implications, as over 330 cities and towns around the world... Continue Reading