Civism and Cities

It can hardly be doubted that the most influential new traditional architecture completed this year were Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College, the two new residential colleges at Ya...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/best-trad-buildings-of-2017-architecture-here-and-there/

Cities that were sprawling before the Great Recession have begun to sprawl again. Space-constrained cities, meanwhile, have run out of room to build. That reality has spurred developers to focu...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/americas-cities-are-running-out-of-room-bloomberg/

The question is so obvious that you could easily forget to ask it: why do cities so often have a poor east side? To be clear, the mystery is not why every city has its leafy and its grubby sectio...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/blowing-in-the-wind-why-do-so-many-cities-have-poor-east-ends-cities-the-guardian/

Thousands of millennials are moving to the suburbs of Riverside, Calif., San Antonio, Texas and Orlando, Fla. The burbs of those three metro areas saw the greatest growth in the number of adults ...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/05/11/millennials-see-the-top-25-suburbs-where-theyre-moving-time-com/

It is the whole mission of the church to speak the gospel. As to what sort of thing “the gospel” may be, too many years ago I tried to explain that in a book with the title Story and Promise,...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/how-the-world-lost-its-story-by-robert-w-jenson-articles-first-things/

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City tells the story of Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, who made herself the bane of New York’s powerful city planners from the 1950s...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/how-one-woman-harnessed-people-power-to-save-old-new-york-film-the-guardian/

I am an architect and I certainly consider myself an environmentalist, but it appears to me that in a lot of cities, these new glass towers don’t add much at all to the city in terms of energy ...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/cities-need-goldilocks-housing-density-not-too-high-or-low-but-just-right-life-and-style-the-guardian/

We all know that art, music and nature are beautiful. They command the senses and incite emotion. Their impact is swift and visceral. How can a mathematical idea inspire the same feelings? Well, ...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/the-worlds-most-beautiful-mathematical-equation-the-new-york-times/

In many ways, Esolen’s book can be seen as a response to Mencken, a meditation on why beauty and truth are such inseparable mates—or contrariwise, why falsehood always begets ugliness. Certai...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/warrior-for-truth-and-beauty-city-journal/

Controversial response to YouGov survey results that people prefer traditionally designed buildings, as architects lash out at traditional architecture. The architectural profession has responded...

https://civismandcities.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/yougov-survey-people-prefer-traditionally-designed-buildings/