De-stroading the country will make everything better for everyone, including those that regularly drive, and create places we are proud of.

When engineers design streets, we end up with the "programmer art" of urbanism.

When we talk about the affordability of cities, let's not limit the conversation to rents. Mass renting is not a long term solution.

'Picturesque', 'beautiful', and 'charming' are rarely words we use to describe modern architecture, instead preferring 'cool', 'state of the art', and 'innovative' - words describing something that disrupts rather than complements the surroundings

One of my criticisms of modern urban planning is that it kind of looks the same everywhere you go.

Ample parking and high levels of car ownership is harmful for small, neighbourhood businesses.

Will this new development make traffic worse? The conventional wisdom about the relationship between development and traffic contains a number of important misconceptions.

When large storefronts sit empty for years, holding out for the perfect big tenant, while small businesses can’t find space to rent, we’ve got a serious problem.

Transit is not a prerequisite for making a decent people-oriented neighbourhood.

Setbacks require us to set aside a fixed amount of land per lot, encouraging us to consolidate towards fewer, larger lots.

Let's take a look at what makes a neighbourhood park great by exploring Van Vorst Park in Jersey City, NJ.

Historic preservation is often used to prevent something being replaced by something worse, but are we focusing on the symptom or the cause?

What would a main street look like if we designed it first and foremost for people?

Big-box stores are often associated with suburbia, but they can trace their roots to department stores that are often anchors of retail life in a city. There is nothing inherently suburban about large scale retail.

If only we could find a free spot in town and build a house.

The largest threat to Hoboken's character are the monolithic block-sized buildings I see appear anywhere that there is an opportunity to redevelop.

Traffic projections are only correct if you listen to them thus inducing demand and becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Does it make you a bad person for wanting to live in the nicest area you can afford?

Parks are an excellent use of land, and we can classify them as Neighbourhood Parks and Grand Parks.

Visiting Australia and Mexico, and moving to New York City.

Let's visit a 1850's themed town in Australia.

Narrower streets provide exponentially more tax revenue per square foot of street supporting them.

Traffic lights act as synchronization barriers that cause cars to cluster together giving the illusion of congestion.

Building dense is not the same as building tall. More Provincetown and less Le Corbusier.

Living in suburbia is driving me to do more of my shopping online than when I lived in a city.

The best way to preserve something is to keep is relevant, not put it under a glass case and keep it on life support.

I was always taught to communicate in the most plain, simple, and unambiguous way possible.

Density is simply a measurement of population over area and has very little to do with zoning.

Food courts are more than simply places you can walk to to eat a reasonably priced meal or snack at. Food courts are social places.

Inner Conway would be an awesome town if we could just focus on being us - and let everyone else just do their thing.

Look at the forest and not the trees when it comes to being environmentally friendly.

One of my favourite things I miss from Australian cities are laneways and their connotation is different to an alley.

A few frustrating thoughts walking around in my new neighbourhood.

Cars are rugged machines. So why do we prioritize making cars more comfortable than people?

Public markets encourage innovation, they create activity, and most of all, they lower the cost of entry to the market, which in turn, encourages jobs to locally grow.

Let's be upfront and transparent about what we are trying to build.

Let's transform an old airport site into a Traditional City.

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in the southern United States would have noticed the abundance of large vehicles on the roads.

All of the land used within a city can be classified into two categories: places and non-places. Places are for people. Everything else is a non-place.