WANTED: Killer Modeling Tool to Sell Sustainable Urban Villages! Part 2 By Brian Skeele, on March 10th, 2011 Continuing the walk thru of my take on the Killer Modeling Tool… As the amount of input from the Charrette (design) process builds, the needs and desires of the future residents, landowners, finance people, city planners, designers, the school district, neighbors, etc, are collected. People …
Ideas | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on March 21st, 2011 is your neighborhood playing with a full deck of cards? To help folks become conversant in all the parts that go into a sustainable neighborhood, while having fun at the same time, how bout a deck of playing cards??! Like baseball cards, but with a different component on each card; An illustration on …
Tool | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
World Peace this Week, Sustainable Neighborhoods Next Week! By Brian Skeele, on May 7th, 2011 I just watched John Hunter’s TED presentation….So Dang Good! He has his 4th graders solving World Peace in one week! I wrote him to see if the game, played on a 3 dimensional 4’x4′ board game, could be adapted to sustainable neighorhoods. Social, Economic and …
Quality of Life | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on July 14th, 2011 The intent is to give people the tools to redevelop their neighborhood sustainably. Here’s one way I see it playing out. (my take on the Chattanooga 2000 process). 1) All the citizens are invited to a “Make our City a Better Place to Live” event ( “A more sustainable town”, etc). 2) The …
Safeway goes Mixed Use! | Beyond Suburbia | Making Sustainable Real!
By Brian Skeele, on May 30th, 2011 Museum Place Lofts & Townhouses were finished in 2003 in Portland’s Cultural District. The development has 140 apartments atop and behind a Safeway grocery store. Safeway has thrown away its clothes!!! Naked Thursdays!! Come as you are! Yes, I’m babbling…I just learned Safeway in Washington DC has two mixed use redevelopments cooking. Starting with …