A fanciful city | REVIEW | American Urban Form: A Representative History
By Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor How do you solve a problem like ‘the City’? This is the generic name Sam Bass Warner and Andrew H. Whittemore give to their “hypothetical city” in...
View ArticleComment | We need women designing buildings | CNN.com
Opinion: We need women designing buildings – CNN.com. We Need to Prize Talent, not Self-Promotion by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor Denise Scott Brown should (have) be(en) recognized...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Sex | Architectural Record
Concrete Blonde sent a link to the below editorial in The Architectural Record by its Editor in Chief, Cathleen McGuigan, as a follow-up from our earlier post on The Outlaw Urbanist (Comment: We need...
View ArticleLying Statistics | Suicide in America | Atlantic Cities | New York Times
Editorial by Mark David Major, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor “Beware of false prophets who come to you disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves.” – Matthew 7:15 The difference between...
View ArticlePREVIEW | Foreword by Julia Starr Sanford | Poor Richard, An Almanac for...
As architects, designers, and planners, we sometimes take ideas, problems, and situations and make them more complicated than they really are or, as Poor Richard says, “compress the most words into the...
View ArticlePoor Richard (Volume 2) Review | Portland Book Review
Poor Richard, Another Almanac for Architects and Planners (Volume 2) by Mark David Major | Portland Book Review by George Erdosh, April 20, 2015 The review of Poor Richard, Another Almanac for...
View ArticleDispatches from Dawn in the USA | via the Original Green
Dispatches from Dawn in the USA | via the Original Green by Steve Mouzon, December 8, 2014 Steve Mouzon, AIA discusses the influence of Benjamin Franklin within the context of the release of Poor...
View ArticleLife, Liberty, Happiness: the need for heroic planning | Blab
The Outlaw Urbanist, Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, will participate in online broadcast with Don Kostelec of Kostelec Planning this Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm EST titled, “Life, Liberty,...
View ArticleREVIEW | Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
REVIEW | Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism | Benjamin Ross Review by Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor The first half of Benjamin Ross’...
View ArticleREPOST | 20 Must-Read Texts for Urban Planners (#11-20)
by Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, The Outlaw Urbanist Contributor (Originally posted January 22, 2013) Lists are often a handy tool to spark a discussion, debate, or even an argument. The purpose...
View ArticleREPOST | 20 Must-Read Texts for Urban Planners (#1-10)
by Dr. Mark David Major, AICP, CNU-A, The Outlaw Urbanist contributor (Originally posted January 28, 2013) Here is Part 2 of the “20 Must-Read Texts for Urban Planners (#1-10)” article, originally...
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