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What Walk Score Tells Us About Durham
Jeff Speck’s simple tool shows us how to build a better city.
Aug 27
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July 2025
Architecture Without CAD?
At Notre Dame’s Architecture Camp my daughter learned how to draw a church.
Jul 30
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The Math on Durham's Small Lot Reform
Reducing minimum lot size is a prequisite to lowering housing costs
Jul 23
15
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$1.1m Per Affordable Home?
What the Chicago Mayor's tweet tells us About the failure of mass media on housing
Jul 16
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June 2025
The Anderson Test
Let's start grading cities on how serious they are about housing affordability
Jun 25
5
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Equity is in The Backyard
BEHIND THE MIC SERIES #7 | Architect Eric Kronberg lays out strategies for our lowest-wealth neighbors to provide housing.
Jun 18
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Littler, Part 2
Why restaurantuer ownership opportunities are critical to a building a city's identity
Jun 10
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Littler, Part 1
What the final days of a beloved restaurant say about ownership and placemaking
Jun 5
5
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May 2025
How North Carolina Punished My 16 Year Old for Studying Architecture
A personal story shows how local education policies actively discourage kids from pursuing rigorous careers in housing
May 30
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The Coming Renaissance
Why the next 5 years will usher in a Golden Age of Urbanism
May 21
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Thomas Dougherty's American Alley
BEHIND THE MIC SERIES #6 | A Notre Dame Architect wrote a book on the forgotten geometry of affordability and beauty of backyard housing.
May 14
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School Pickup Lines are Shameful
The College Towns blog show how a unique microcosm of American culture explains everything wrong with today's "Bigger is Better" philosophy
May 7
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