Comments on: How is a subdivision possible?

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:32:51 +0000

Wow. Looking at the satellite view of Phoenix, that just looks unnaturally orderly…

By: David Sucher

David Sucher — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:16:24 +0000

It seems to me that you are conflating the land subdivision process with the build-out process. What result had Levitt one the platting/lamd development and then sold off lots? Not exactly but if there was a zoning code in place then you’d get a great deal of uniformity of massing (which is the point of most codes.)

By: Scale-free urban systems « Emergent Urbanism

Scale-free urban systems « Emergent Urbanism — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:09:54 +0000

[...] than building projects was the fact that they have to deal with change and uncertainty, and that subdivision-planned developments are economically inferior to random growth. These arguments rely on the fundamental quality of cities as systems, a property that places them [...]

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:32:40 +0000

And again, brilliant. You must read real books.