In a post Design and the Urban Skatepark featured on Urban Omnibus, the online project of the Architectural League , skateboard park designer, and ex-skater Buck Jackson gives an excellent and eloquent description of skateboarding’s architectonic, health, civic and market values. In his account he also describes how, despite the reluctancy of cities to build [...]

Jane Jacobs: Neighbourhoods in Action is a video produced by Active Living Network (a project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) featuring an interview with the American urban visionary Jane Jacobs (via Jane’s Walk Pheonix the Jane’s Walks blogspot). Jane’s Walk is a grassroots initiative that seeks to put people and communities at the heart [...]