Today’s Buzz is by Greg Stopka (Twitter and LinkedIn) What I am watching: Stranger Things Season 3 (I wrote this before July 4th premiere but I’m sure that’s what I’ll be watching on July 9th) What I am listening to: Audio book of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (on a Robert Langdon fix) What … Continued
This is a monthly blog by AJ Fawver. She’ll share her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. Learn more about AJ from her GovLove interview! Read the whole series here. Earlier this week, in putting together a presentation focusing on the various types of thoroughfares involved in a master thoroughfare plan, I was reminded … Continued
This is a monthly blog by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She’ll share her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. Learn more about AJ from her GovLove interview! While we sometimes forget this, working in local government means that we are in the people business. That’s what appeals to … Continued
This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. The celebration of new – new year, new beginnings, new technology, new ideas – is part of human nature. We love to pursue and try the new. … Continued
This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. In our work of planning and shaping cities, we can’t do it alone. The boards and commissions comprised of citizens who volunteer their time to hear presentations … Continued
This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She shares her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. Learn more about AJ from her GovLove interview! We spend a lot of time in our cars. Far too much, in my opinion, but that’s for a future column. … Continued
This is the monthly blog series by AJ Fawver, the Planning Director in Lubbock, Texas. She’ll share her perspectives on land use, planning, and community development in this series. Learn more about AJ from her GovLove interview! One of the things we learn early on in local government circles is that we are rule followers. There are lots … Continued
This post is part of a partnership between ELGL and State of Place, who uses extensive knowledge of urban design and empirical analysis to quantify what people love about places and forecast why it makes sense to make them better. Check back weekly for a post from this partnership. Designing for the most vulnerable in mind…this is … Continued
This post is part of a partnership between ELGL and State of Place, who uses extensive knowledge of urban design and empirical analysis to quantify what people love about places and forecast why it makes sense to make them better. Check back weekly for a post from this partnership. In case you don’t have time right this … Continued
This is the next installment in AJ Fawver’s Planning & Shaping Cities blog series. If you’ve been part of a city or county budget discussion, or tried to undertake a project related to green space, then you’re familiar with the common rhetoric that parks and public spaces aren’t top priorities. After all, it isn’t public … Continued
