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Remember, Provo Needs A New City Hall
My former colleague Genelle Pugmire reported over the weekend that the city council is preparing to discuss a bunch of issues. Some are surprising — how long shaved ice stands can operate? really? —...
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An Update, Or, This Is Now The View Out My Window
The picture above is a view out my current window. So, I have officially moved to Salt Lake City. (If you’re interested, read this earlier post where I explain my new job, which is what precipitated...
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UTA to Start Charging for Parking at Draper Station
Parking at a transit station in Provo. A few months ago, I argued that UTA had its parking and riding situation backward; rather than give away parking and charge for transit, they should give away...
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Transit Pays For Itself
Yesterday, I wrote that subsidizing transit is a better idea that subsidizing parking for transit users. As it turns out, it’s hard to understate that case. The Atlantic Cities reported earlier this...
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How To Buy A Home That Grows in Value
Continuing the transit theme from the past few days, here’s one way to ensure your house increases in value: make sure it’s located near a transit station. That’s according to a study commissioned by...
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Wayfinding And Preservation In A Small Town
Over the weekend I visited Price for work. While I was there saw some interesting examples of urban development in a small town. Perhaps most notably, Price has some wayfinding in its downtown: A map...
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Why No New Posts?
You may or may not have noticed that there have been no new posts for the last few days. That’s not because I’ve given up on the blog, it’s because I’m working on and figuring out how to redesign it...
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New Blog: About Town
I have finally started my new blog. I’m not totally satisfied with the design (I’m still using a WordPress template but I want to design my own page) and I’ve only posted a few times there. But you can...
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Grace, History and the Role of Buildings
I’m currently reading John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and last night I came to several passages that bear on the discussion about the importance of building durable, beautiful buildings generally....
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Authentic traditional culture versus its caricature
From Léon Krier’s The Architecture of Community: The most important antagonism in architecture today is not between tradition and modernism but between authentic traditional culture and its caricature.
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