Southern Urbanism

The Next American City

My greeting as the next Editor of Southern Urbanism

23 hrs ago • Jaime J. Izurieta

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September 2026

What a Christian Apologist Taught Me About Cities

An Urbanist's Review of G.K. Chesterton's 1908 Orthodoxy

Published on flâneurbanist • Sep 2

August 2026

Downtown Servers

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

Aug 27 • Jaime J. Izurieta

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Remarks On A Map Not Yet Finished

The Eternal American Return: The Unerasable Republic

Aug 4 • Jaime J. Izurieta

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July 2026

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.

Jul 28 • Nick Larkins

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Seeing What Isn’t There

How Imagination Shaped Me and My Country

Jul 21 • Billy Cooney

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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

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June 2026

Semiquincentennial

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

Jun 30 • Jaime J. Izurieta

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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

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Where Did the Planners Go?

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

Jun 2 • Billy Cooney

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May 2026

A Design Philosophy for the Criminally Sane

Brief principles for building a world worth living in.

May 26

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