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“Urbandwidth”

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One of our favorite online news and commentary sources, Planetizen, picked up Great City board member Chuck Wolfe’s recent submission to the lexicon of urban issues. Check out his post for a great overview of the state of discourse in urbanist circles, and a worthy contribution to that discourse in its own right!

From: MyUrbanist

the mission ahead: recalibrating “urbandwidth”

Posted by Chuck – July 19, 2010

Writing and conversing about the urban experience has made one thing clear. Short of the word “urbanism” and its modified variants, there is no one English word which holistically captures the qualities of livable cites or the associated metrics that many commentators tout and exemplify.

Portland’s Jason King supports this point in his  wonderful article,”[Fill in the Blank] Urbanism,” which I  noted in March. King’s article profiled the range of paired terms which modify the basic urbanism premise–and asked readers to name a favorite.

Others have described the inadequacy of commonly used catchwords. Writing in the Washington Post,  on May 8, architect Roger Lewis called for terms far more descriptive than “transit-oriented development” (TOD) to describe the qualities of walkable cities, calling for “multimodal TOD’s” More…

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