Where to Resettle Californians?
We need to enable major densification of selected California cities to accommodate our own climate refugees. Yesterday I pointed out that there are many cities… Read More »Where to Resettle Californians?
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Fire Risk and California Settlement Patterns
As Californians we need to re-think where we build and rebuild our towns and cities. Paradise, California was largely destroyed by the Camp Fire on… Read More »Fire Risk and California Settlement Patterns
Yazidis, ISIS, and aggressive cosmopolitanism
In our Cities in a Global Society course, one of the fundamental themes is cosmopolitanism. I introduced the idea early in the course with the… Read More »Yazidis, ISIS, and aggressive cosmopolitanism
The fight over the past: the politics of official history
One of the peculiar traits of modern nation-states is that they try to collapse together a variety of things into one, politically-effective bundle: 1. The… Read More »The fight over the past: the politics of official history
The regime is…us
In my Cities in a Global Society course, I have been pressing the point that we need to rethink organized political power. The classic English/German… Read More »The regime is…us
USP514: Re-thinking Zoning Codes
Hello Urban Design team! I want you to think about what sorts of regulations we want to recommend for this new North Bayshore community. Mountain… Read More »USP514: Re-thinking Zoning Codes
USP514: Thinking about streetscapes
Hello Streetscape Team! Please take this post with a grain of skeptical salt. I want you to push new ideas and innovate. So here I… Read More »USP514: Thinking about streetscapes
USP 514: SketchUp instead of Blender
As you know, I prefer free, open-source software and data. Thus I recommended QGIS rather than ArcGIS, and Blender rather than Rhino, 3DSMAX, or other… Read More »USP 514: SketchUp instead of Blender
Refining the task for USP514
Dear students, I have been mulling over how to clarify the tasks for the rest of the semester. The fact the Mountain View is seriously… Read More »Refining the task for USP514
USP514: Basic GIS
Last week I briefly showed you what a first session in Quantum GIS looks like. Now I have revised the data to make it a… Read More »USP514: Basic GIS