Thor S.

In our quest for convenience and comfort, have American planners, architects, and landscape architects done TOO much engineer fitness out of our daily routines? 49 of 50 states have populations whe...

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, cites research that the average distance an American child travels from their home has shrunk to 1/9th of what it was in 1970. I was born in 1974 and ...

Not a month goes by without a "Road Rage" story on the nightly news. So after nearly a century of Civil Engineering, why do our roads lack civility? One problem is our national "windshield perspec...

I love the pop-up and DIY nature of these community experiments. As a planner, we often talk about "community building" and "social capital" but seldom do we take the the time to create the condition...