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Strong Towns Architecture Article
Go check out my latest piece at Strong Towns. This one is about some of the architectural ideas I’ve touched on in previous posts. Join the discussion there and at Facebook under their post about the article. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/6/3/cognitive-comfort-and-visual-clutter-is-it-time-we-started-regulating-style
Urban Growth Boundaries
Go see my latest article over at Strong Towns: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/1/25/urban-growth-boundary It’s about how the urban growth “boundaries” we’ve established in Tennessee are really anything but that. It’s more of a technical article. Here I want to explore the issue from a different angle. I kind of want to talk about just how far we are…
How do I buy a House?
My wife and I are in the beginning stages of thinking about buying a house. This process for us looks a lot different than it did for my parents or grandparents. Millennials are facing the most overinflated housing market in recent history. Correction: it’s overinflated based on what is just and moral (and I’m going…
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