My wife recently returned from a business trip that echoed an interesting phenomenon in urban planning. It was a city with revitalization, development, place making, events, community building, art, food, drink, culture, commerce and destination planning. Sounds like all the attributes of new urbanism planning. Now where do you think my wife went on her business trip?

I have always been fascinated by cargo trains. Maybe it’s the rumbling of the wheels, the mystery of what goods they are carrying, the unknown destination they are going, who is driving the train and multitude of other things.

There are positives to having ivy on workforce housing buildings.

The heart and bones of NYC, the middle class are being forced out.

Listen to the tunes of my list of top city planning song.

Pop Up Park of Dunellen

Dune’s 1984 is better

The fictional dream of the GSP grand prix race

There is a term my father in law used the other day after a day trip in a NJ city. The term was urban appreciation. Now what NJ City do you think we toured? Jersey City, Hoboken, Newark. No, it was Paterson.