Community Based Land Use: From Individual Rights to Community Rights
This is the second post in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Tomorrow’s post is Where Would Jesus Live: The Moral Dimension of Cities One of our nations founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, has inculcated the idea that as Americans we are entitled to “life, liberty, and the pursuit […]
Use Over Form: Creating Jobs, Prosperity, and Accommodating Growth
The first in a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Tomorrow’s post is Community Based Land Use: From Individual Rights to Community Rights. Land as Economic Engine It may sound like a slogan but it is true that to create jobs and economic growth, land, in cities, should be allowed its […]
More Than Climate Change: The Economic, Political, and Moral Dimensions of Density
Introduction to a series on density first posted in 2012 at Seattle’s Land Use Code. Tomorrow’s post is Use Over Form: Creating Jobs, Prosperity, and Accommodating Growth. What are the values that support living in the city? What, besides the many environmental reasons, makes density something we need to press for whenever we can? Is the only reason […]
