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The buildings that run Main Street are wrongly treated as the enemy. A case for data centers.

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Aug 4 • Jaime J. Izurieta

Cowboys and Industry

The health of American culture depends on building both a healthy cityscape and a healthy countryside, the two halves of the human habitat.

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Seeing What Isn’t There

How Imagination Shaped Me and My Country

Jul 21 • Billy Cooney

The Tyranny of Perfection

What America's founding tells us about citybuilding

Jul 14 • Eli Smith

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Revisiting Euclid v. Ambler at 100

How a flawed 1926 ruling still undermines American values, ingenuity and self-reliance

Jul 7 • Aaron Lubeck

Semiquincentennial

Presenting Southern Urbanism's 5-Part series on American Land Use at 250

Jun 30 • Jaime J. Izurieta

Less Hard Work Than Play

Traditional building methods are more than a means of building structures, they are highly conducive to strong communities.

Jun 9 • Nick Larkins

Where Did the Planners Go?

How Planning’s Declining Influence Led Cities Astray, and What To Do About It

Jun 2 • Billy Cooney

A Design Philosophy for the Criminally Sane

Brief principles for building a world worth living in.

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Better Invisible Than Heavy

The hand that builds the city is tied. It's up to us to free it.

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