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Wet Boundary: How the Flint River Defined Atlanta
2021 marks an important anniversary for Atlanta. It’s been two hundred years since the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs in which the Creek Na..
On Suburbs
On History
A short blurb on the role of history and understanding our pace in the history of a city in which we are designing.
On “Nature”
This is a great, short blurb on the role of (and understanding of) nature in the city.
On the Order of Cities
On the Invention of Landscape
On “Otium”
Doug Allen speaking on the role of the villa and otium in Ancient Rome and the Renaissance.
Paul Knight’s Lecture, Savannah Day Session Presentations Now Available
Paul’s lecture at CNU 26 in Savannah, “Arithmetic & Scale: Design Lessons from Savannah’s Urban Form,” is now available online as a .P..
The History of Urban Form Lecture 01: What is a City?
This is an excerpt from Otium Issue 01. To read the full issue, click here. This lecture is also available in video form here.
A note f..
The History of Urban Form Lecture 02, PT I: Measuring Density
This is an excerpt from Otium Issue 02. To read the full issue, click here.
A Note from the Editor:
In Lecture 01, Doug divides ..
Streets: Their History, Importance, and Regulation
Presented by Paul Knight, DCAI President, at the Atlanta City Studio on November 1, 2016, to a packed room full of urbanists. Covers stree..
In less than the lifespan of one of Chicago’s earliest residents, Emily Beaubien Le Beau (1825–1919), Chicago grew from fewer than 100 people into being the fourth-largest city in the world.
A Brief History of Street Grids in America
The grid has been used continuously throughout the world as a development pattern since Hippodamus first used it in Piraeus, Greece, in th..
Master Street Plans
There is no great city in the world that isn’t made up of a highly connected network of streets. In fact this is the first thing that all ..
Applying the Lessons of History to Future Development
This presentation was delivered at the 2016 National Planning Conference in Phoenix, AZ, by Paul Knight and David Green on April 4.
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