Hazel Borys

Hazel Borys is principal and managing director of Placemakers, a planning, coding, marketing, and implementation firm.

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Making a new urbanist of me

Great places have the ability to inspire, and Seaside changed my life from building wide, fast roads to analyzing and documenting the DNA of places.
HAZEL BORYSMAY. 25, 2021
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The walkable, urban world of Pokemon

The game celebrates art, architecture, and culture, so businesses near cultural landmarks have a better chance of having PokéStops, which is what you need to be able to place a lure.
HAZEL BORYSAUG. 4, 2016
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Preserving the rural landscape with agrarian urbanism

In addition to land use that perversely incentivizes the destruction of rural lands with 5-acre lots, the financial system further incentivizes rural subdivisions gobbling up farmland at a frightening rate.
HAZEL BORYSAUG. 15, 2017