Urban Utopias
Fifty Years of New Town Ideology: A comparative analysis of three New Towns outside of Washington DC: Greenbelt, Reston, and Kentlands
Author Archives: Alan Loomis
Urban Conversations
A review of the “Urbanisms: New and Other” conference, held at the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, 24-26 February 2000
Locating Victor Gruen
On March 23, 1959 the Kalamazoo City Commission unanimously adopted an ordinance closing two blocks of Burdick Street from automobile traffic. In August of that year, Burdick Street was reopened […]
Urban Paranoia
A political comparison between grid and non-grid urban forms, as analyzed via Roswell NM and The X-Files episode “Arcadia” | Published in “loudpaper” volume 3, issue 3, 2000
The Irvine House
The Master Suite As the owners of a new $200,000 plus Irvine Home, the happy couple are rewarded with generous personal space. Occupying nearly a quarter of the house, the […]
Urban Debates
A review of the “Exploring (New) Urbanism” conference, held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, 4-6 March 1999
Urban Collage
A collaged travelogue through the contemporary metropolis
Urban Nomenclature
A collection of terminology currently in use to describe the contemporary metropolitan condition
Silverbeach Neighborhood
This flat, public site is located on the Lake Michigan shore. The owner asked us to create a phased masterplan for 29 houses.
Delirious LA 