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August 14, 2014 by Kevin

You can’t go home again… except now you can, Part 2

Back in time for another Throwback Thursday #TBT flashback/flashforward. In the latest incarnation of Zillow sales histories are online, including photos and descriptions from past marketing listings. So I went back to the house that I spent the bulk of my childhood in, from Kindergarten through sophomore year in high school. Turns out it was most recently on the […]
August 10, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Downtown Napa #2

Back in May I posted some photos that were taken for our work on the Downtown Napa Specific Plan. There are lots more though – here’s another sampling.
May 10, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Stairway lanes in Belvedere

As part of our consulting work, we assisted the City of Belvedere with the update of its General Plan. Belvedere Island has a network of pedestrian lanes and stairways, photographed here in 2009:
May 5, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Verrado in Buckeye, Arizona

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so an aspect of this site is to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos from 2008 of the planned community of Verrado in Buckeye, Arizona:
April 27, 2014 by Kevin

Sunday in Athens

I’m in Atlanta this week for the annual American Planning Association (APA) national conference. I arrived early and had some spare time, so took a quick roadtrip to Athens. The city is well known as the home of bands like R.E.M. and The B-52s, and several long-time indie rock groups, so had been a place I’d long been curious about. So […]
April 21, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Fitchburg, Wisconsin

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of duotone photos produced for a proposal for Fitchburg, Wisconsin, taken in 2009:
April 17, 2014 by Kevin

Almost home

For this week’s Throwback comes an old photo of a house in Scottsdale my family had put a deposit on, but then backed out of. It was 1979 and we were outgrowing our modest Hallcraft house, so we fixed our sights on a new subdivision a few miles north. The house had bedrooms for all of […]
April 16, 2014 by Kevin

From the Archives: Napa, California

Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos pulled from work on the Downtown Plan for the City of Napa, taken in 2009-2010:
April 13, 2014 by Kevin

Sunday afternoon

This is how I’d like to be spending a sunny Sunday afternoon:
April 12, 2014 by Kevin

Surreal Suburb: Fairmeadows in Palo Alto

In 2005 I created a small website called “Surreal Suburbs of the Bay Area.” I’d been inspired by a book I’d read by Paul Lisicky called Famous Builder in which he describes a curious, unfinished subdivision he had visited as a kid. It made me think about the intriguing subdivisions and neighborhoods I’d visited – not […]
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