Happy Birthday to Zack Urban Solutions! I can hardly believe it, but it has been exactly one year since I left local government and launched...

I had so much fun with the last podcast, that I did another one! The kind and gracious folks at the EcoNews, Tom Wheeler and Colin Fiske, ho...

Jordan Mattox recently interviewed me for his podcast, humbly named Fresno's Best Podcast . I had a lot of fun and I think we covered so...

Well, it’s a wrap! After 7.5 years with the City of Fresno and 23 years in local government, I have left my position as Assistant Director o...

Historic mixed use buildings with ground floor retail in Port Townsend, Washington. Mixed use downtowns were the hearts of our cities f...

(Source: Fresno Bee) Hello, Internet! I'm still alive!  If you follow this blog, you may be wondering why I abruptly stopped wr...

Burlingame , California is a city south of San Francisco on the San Francisco Peninsula. It features a very nice downtown district which...

Fonzie with the Cunninghams in his accessory apartment above their garage. (From the TV series Happy Days. ) Accessory apartments are s...

(Photo source: www.choosewhat.com) Housing is too expensive in many of America's major metropolitan areas, and something must be d...

Greenwich Village, New York City. A lot of people enjoy this sort of thing. (Source: www.http://millefiorifavoriti.blogspot.com) In c...

I'm happy to announce that my humble little blog has hit a cool milestone. Right at the New Year I received my 10,000th page view. S...

Well this is just great. Now I'll never be able to afford a used Hyundai. (Source: www.cleantechnica.com) Gentrification is back ...

Incremental Urbanism in Washington DC (Source:  Wikipedia ) I am a big proponent of Incremental Urbanism , which is the creation of g...

Black Friday at WalMart? Zombie Apocalypse? Nope, just a San Francisco open house. (Source: www.creepmachine.com) In most areas with o...

(Source: Unknown) Despite the ravages of the 2008 housing bubble burst, and the ensuing recession, affordable housing is a tremendous p...

(Source: www.saveto76.blogspot.com) Every city planner knows the acronym NIMBY, which stands for Not In My Back Yard . It is used to r...

New York, under construction lot-by-lot. (Source: New York Historical Society) For the past 70 years or so, much of what we have built ...

(Source: www.themidwoodblog.com) Perhaps it is a natural territorial instinct to wall ourselves into a protected enclave. Much has been...

(Source: Urban Advantage ) Major streets are usually terrible places. Who wants to stroll along a street like the one above? I certainly...

Arlington, Virginia (All images are from the film Arlington's Smart Growth Journey ) I recently watched a great documentary on You...