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New York's Greenwich Village Fog's rollin' in off the East River bank Like a shroud it covers Bleecker Street Fills the...

Northey Street City Farm. Activating space on market day - all photos by Mateja Mihinjac GUEST BLOG Mateja Mihinjac  is a criminologi...

Graffiti and murals at home together - Toronto's Annex Sometimes a successful neighborhood just grows organically with gentle nudgi...

Pruitt-Igoe public housing, St. Louis, 1977. Photo - Creative Commons CPTED is 40 this year! Professor C. Ray Jeffery's book ...

We must rethink land use zoning There were interesting comments to my last blog about CPTED, design guidelines and the incomplete equation. ...

Clean, efficient design with great sightlines, yet empty streets. I spoke to Elisabeth Miller, a planner friend from Saskatoon, this week ...

Ghost Busters on South Street How much is too much? Planner, developer, and academic types have asked this question for decades. So has Malc...

My blogs of late have told stories of walkability and overcoming complexity - ingredients of the safe and vital neighborhood. There are more...

Discovering fun things during Jane's Walks I spent a few days this week enjoying the fascinating streets of Toronto where dozens of ne...

A half century ago an urban activist and writer from Greenwich Village in New York changed our world. Attacked as plain talking and a "...