Generate Build·1d agoWhat a Digital Twin Actually Shows You About a Desert DowntownI spent a week last summer walking the same eight blocks in downtown Phoenix at different hours, mostly to see where the shade went. By…
InMoving Ellsworth ForwardbyAmy Kenney·1d agoDigital Transformation on a Shoestring: Why People and Processes Must Come Before TechnologyHow one Maine municipality is rethinking community development when modernization isn’t in the budget.
F. Kaid Benfield·3d agoHalloween: the Night the ‘Burbs Come to TownLast night brought Halloween, a big event in our neighborhood. We had somewhere around 200 kids come to our door for trick-or-treating…
MapToModel·Oct 21GenAnywhere vs. CityWeft: Turning Urban Scenarios Into Decisions Without Losing the DesignUrban design is not really a drawing discipline. It is a decision discipline dressed in drawings — a long argument between developers…
GenAnywhere·Oct 14I Compared Five 3D Platforms While Turning a Dead Mall Into a NeighborhoodThe old mall in my example is not abandoned in a dramatic way. It is simply losing stores one lease at a time. The roof is sound, the…
GenAnywhere·Oct 10I Modeled the Parking Garage Nobody Asked For, and It Changed How the Station Meeting WentThe transit board was two hours into a discussion about a park and ride on the east edge of our light rail line when someone said the thing…
Jonathan Pacheco Bell, AICP, MAUP, MLIS·Oct 1My 2003 Admissions Essay to UCLA Urban PlanningI got admitted.
Janak Mistry·Oct 1Designing the In-BetweenRethinking User Experience design for the work-in-progress city
Kan Lou·Sep 22I Work in a Place Called “Coffin”Three years ago, I moved from Shanghai to Sweden and began working in Kista, a technology district in northern Stockholm.
InThe thinking behind designbySpazioformadesign·Sep 18Architectures of place: journey in the covered marketsIn architecture there are many projects that they prove interesting solutions either as architectonic structures with their stylistic…
