Hazel Borys
Hazel Borys is principal and managing director of Placemakers, a planning, coding, marketing, and implementation firm.
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.
A walkable urban retail primer
Nuture unique historic character in walkable formats and don’t build leasable space that you can’t lease. For downtown to have a critical mass, the goal is to capture 20 percent of the retail market share.
A walkable urban retail primer
Nuture unique historic character in walkable formats and don’t build leasable space that you can’t lease. For downtown to have a critical mass, the goal is to capture 20 percent of the retail market share.