Mark (Bosco, to be clear) got pretty worked up over JHK's blog this week.  Seems Kunstler's doomer imagery/wishful thinking were a little heavy in this recent post and Mark - well Mark felt Jim needed to pull back from the brink. Personally, I look forward to JHK's weekly blog ...

First off, the oscar for the best line of the night goes to the ........   DWBIA "Solving your jobs problem through incorrect planning is like solving your weight problem by taking up smoking" The Chamber's main objection tonight was that they outright reject the premise of "Zero sum". That new rezoning ...

Mr. Chris Shnurr asked a question during my last post which I want to answer on this one "Where is the canal in San Antonio by the way? I thought the Riverwalk were improvements along the San Antonio River - a prexisting natural feature the city capitalized on?" My answer is ...

Chris Schnurr wrote a well thought out blog post here in it he talks os the the vagueness of the term "Liveability" Another overused word will be sustainability. That means different things to different people. My idea of sustainability leads to liveability making the second an outcome, not a strategy ...

Let's create a winding stream And eventually we will see something being done to tidy up the land that got caught in last winter’s fire. Do something that has appeal to people considering ...

Richard Florida can maybe tell us! Via All About Cities Maybe meeting expectations makes “cities” happy Richard Florida has a new thought provoking piece on what makes cities happy.  Since cities are inanimate and cannot really be happy or sad, he seems to ...

Do you have to grow food? Because of the enormous impact of agriculture on climate change, pick up any book about "green" solutions and you'll find the suggestions that you grow a vegetable garden. Bang into the "we can't go on as we are" ...

A reposting of today's blog by Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Staved and his new book The Value of Nothing. "My friend Bill K recently sent three pieces about an idea that crops up in The Value of Nothing – The Right to the ...