Bruce Stephenson
Bruce Stephenson is a professor of Environmental Studies at Rollins College and author of John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner.
Mariemont: A timeless exemplar of town planning
Mariemont was an experiment in the power of new town design to produce a more humane and civic-centered life across the economic spectrum.
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.”