PeopleThere is the truism, partial though it is, that we hear at many of our events and those organized by others that Ecocity Builders people participate in, that “the city is the people.” Well it is the people but it is also their arrangement, the...
BTR vs. Rails and Bikes Freeways Before Freeways for Cars Their solution in Curitiba was to zone five corridors of high density mixed use development to run in narrow arms out from a pedestrianizing downtown with these corridors surrounded by very low density frequently punctuated by...
Partly it has to do with being bought off by big companies in academia as many at the University of California at Berkeley were with the half billion dollar grant from BP that is busily building an enormous biosciences research building in Berkeley right now....
What I noticed was the enormous houses cheek by jowl, hundreds of them. “How much do these places cost?” I asked Paul. In the $500,000 to $700,000 range he said. That was a little stunning to my naïve ears.“How on Earth could they afford them?”...
[caption id="attachment_1944" align="alignleft" width="300"] Anil Chitrakar leading tour of Patan[/caption]Our hosts included Dr. Sudarshan Tiwari and Anusuya Joshi representing Shanta Lall Mulmi since unfortunately Shanta’s father ended up at exactly that time in a medical crisis and emergency operation to save his life, a successful...