Welcome - my name is Kevin Klinkenberg, and this site "The Messy City" is my blog and company website. I started blogging on urban planning and design issues in 2007, and began working in the field in 1993. Please feel free to connect with me on any of the social media sites listed here. Thanks for reading.
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In an earlier post I extolled some of the virtues of one-story buildings as a means to "seeding" an urban market in many of our communities. To reiterate, while we still have some fine examples of walkable neighborhoods, the reality is that we've spent decades destroying most of what we had, and building new places with limited walkability at best
Over the coming weeks, I want to use this space to share ideas and thoughts on a subject that is of great interest to me: How do we accomplish great urban design and walkability when the economy stinks?That's a question we’ve heard a lot lately. But the reality is this: the nature of the economy doesn’t have much to do with what we can accomplish - there are many things that can and should be done in any economy and quite a few that are easy ways to get started
