Friday 5: What I’ve found interesting over the past week
5 of the best articles and blog posts I’ve read over the past week. Note: In order to keep better track, (and a more reliable schedule) of my Recent Readings lists, I and going to use the meme of ‘Friday Five, which several other blogs i use also employ. it is kind of like the Twitter ‘folow Friday’s meme, but with blgs and interesting posts instead of Twitter account. this format has the additional benefit of giving people some weekend reading material, and a chance to cath up on some interesting articles and blog posts they may have missed du

You may be an urbanite if…
You may be an urbanite if you (pick at least 3): travel in a personal automobile 5 or less times a week. walk to a local market for groceries walk to your coffee shop, lunch counter, dive bar or restaurant walk to the following services: doctor, bank, pharmacist, accountant, barbershop, bike shop, tailor make a living where you’re living. On the other hand, if you have (or want) to drive everywhere, you aren’t an urbanite.

Urban Surviellance in #DTPhx?
Posted via email from Yuri Artibise

Lewis Mumford on Planning
“Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series of adaptations that themselves become increasingly coherent and purposeful, so that they generate a complex final design, hardly less unified than a pre-formed geometric pattern.” Posted via email from yuriartibise’s posterous

Why RadiatePhx Matters
In one of the responses to yesterday’s post, somebody asked how RadiatePhx is ‘actually impacting/shaping the future of the city?’ My short answer is by building a community that did not exist before. Perhaps the most important piece of any place-making effort is building a sense of community. This is especially important in Phoenix, where not only are we more spread out than the average city, we have less ‘automatic’ communities, such as extended families, ethnic