Bruce Stephenson
Bruce Stephenson is a professor of Environmental Studies at Rollins College and author of John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner.
The enduring legacy of John Nolen
The early 20th Century urban planning giant was right about St. Petersburg—and he inspired the New Urbanism.
The real cost of six million people in a suburban swamp
The recent deluge that inundated Houston and left it looking like Bangladesh reveals the myopia that distorts Joel Kotkin’s latest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. A stalwart defender of drivable suburbanism, Houston is Kotkin’s...
Violent protests mar Portland’s essential blueprint
In the Pearl District, a place designed for human movement and a model of affordable urban renaissance, miscreants with bricks and bats fueled Donald Trump’s incendiary charge that our “inner cities are in crisis.”