by John W. Olson | May 31, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The T3 sector, or sub-urban sector, of the rural-to-urban transect is the portion of the transect that requires the greatest deal of assistance from the new urbanism movement. New Urbanists have developed amazing examples of quality urbanism on infill sites and...
by John W. Olson | May 20, 2011 | Events, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
We are coming up on only one more week until the Congress for the New Urbanism’s annual conference. This year, it is held in Madison, Wisconsin and I could not be anymore excited for CNU this year. Unfortunately, I was unable to make it to Atlanta for last...
by John W. Olson | Apr 20, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
The topic of Agricultural Urbanism is fascinating to me and like many tenets of the New Urbanism movement, there is something very intrinsic about how agriculture relates to urbanism. There may be confusion in what Agricultural Urbanism is compared to Urban...
by John W. Olson | Apr 4, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
This is the third in a series of three blog posts where I have provided my projections of development as they relate to: Master Planned Communities; Government’s Role in Development; New Urbanism; Transportation; and Homeownership. So what is the “new economy?” The...
by John W. Olson | Apr 3, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urbanism
This is the second in a series of three blog posts where I have provided my projections of development as they relate to: Master Planned Communities; Government’s Role in Development; New Urbanism; Transportation; and Homeownership. So what is the “new economy”? The...