by John W. Olson | May 20, 2012 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urbanism
A topic very close to my personal and professional interests is the idea of walkability. This phrase is used often, perhaps too often? But what does walkability really mean? Is it something that we can really define? Probably not. Present party included, geographers,...
by John W. Olson | May 16, 2012 | Business
I hope that you enjoy the following Tweets from the past 3 weeks. I apologize that they took so long this year, I wanted to get the CNU tweets included in this post. #CNU21 will be in Salt Lake City one year from now, at which I full plan to attend… Ideally via...
by John W. Olson | May 3, 2012 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Retrofitting Suburbia is an interesting discussion that has been widely discussed in the architecture and planning groups for the past decade. This has been the era that we have been able to see, too often, the failures of our development patterns since World War II....