I definitely dropped the ball for a few days there. I didn't blog my words of praise for the MBTA, who got me from Central Square to the airport on the evening before Thanksgiving with seats on every leg and in just 40 minutes. It was quite a relaxed...

Today we had our last class on consensus-building, then a lunch meeting about action research, then some mapping of Brooklyn block groups. Now, I am quickly creating a list of resources on community organizing around transit projects.

An intense and fascinating article about Le Corbusier written by (great!) a non-architect: The Architect as Totalitarian. He describes a recent exhibition in London of Corbu's work: The exhibition played a 1920s film showing Le Corbusier in front of a...

Detroit's in the news as a symbol for a lot of things. Writes Bob Herbert, after the usual description of industrial ruin and empty streets: The idea that the fallout from the wrongheaded economic concepts of the past 30 or 40 years could be contained,...

This week in class, we read about consensus-building as a formal method of coming to decisions in the planning process. The idea that there is an alternative to thinking of change as a win-lose proposition, and that people can actually come to realize...