Philip Langdon
Philip Langdon writes on design and community from New Haven, Connecticut. His most recent book is Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All.
Neighborhoods are key to sustainable future
A review of Douglas Farr’s Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
‘Aging with grace’: The next big challenge for urbanists
Designing and establishing systems for walkable communities that support aging residents are important planning and development tasks for the coming decades.
How urbanism, density, and spatial enclosure are related
Dhiru Thadani and Matt Bell, along with the CNU-DC Chapter board, orchestrated the recent Council on “Density Without Urbanism/Urbanism Without Density.” They see the event as the beginning of a series of CNU discussions on density and urbanism. “We...