Notes on “A Better Way to Zone”.

Neighborhood density changes from 6 to 9 dwelling units per acre

For thesis, I’ve picked up Donald Elliott’s ‘A Better Way to Zone’. This has served as a useful counterpart to many of the overly saccharine articles I find praising form based codes. Elliot’s point is that many types of zoning codes (and there is a huge variety out there) are broken in very similar ways. … Read more

400M Hurdle Theory

Easily since the mid point of my second to last semester, I’ve felt pretty overwhelmed. The sheer volume of “Important Things To Do” that take up my day to day existence in order to get through everything that comes with being in grad school is just ridiculous. It got rough enough that at the end … Read more

Blog updates and evolution

Two summer internships, two new cities, one urban design charette, and a gothic tower later, I’m finally ready to re-start the blog.  I’ve swapped the layout of the blog to something I hope will be cleaner to navigate and updated the “About” page to better reflect where I am in grad school.  Which, is both … Read more

around hillard street

While returning to the site today to retake some photos for our site study collage, I drove around the Sweet Auburn area that’s just north of our site. Hillard Street in particular had some really great views of the city’s skyline, being almost exactly perpendicular of the Peachtree ridge. So I wove my way through … Read more

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.