How cities work, who they serve, and who decides. We investigate zoning reform, transit equity, missing-middle housing, highway removal, plaza design, shade policy, and the democratic systems that govern urban space. From parking mandates to participatory budgeting, infrastructure is political architecture.
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The Missing Middle: Housing Between Sprawl and Towers
Duplexes, triplexes, courtyard apartments — the "missing middle" is the gentle density that sustained American neighborhoods for a century. Zoning, finance, and politics narrowed the housing palette; restoring it is a design and equity imperative.
The City Born of Geometry: How New Orleans Became America's Hemispheric Hinge
Cities are usually born of stubbornness or luck; New Orleans was born of geometry. A kink in the Mississippi offered a natural levee and a commanding bend—close enough to the Gulf to smell salt, far enough upriver to dodge the worst of the waves. That curve made the city a hinge between the.