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Andrew Alexander Price

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119 from 1 Oct 2012 to 27 Dec 2025
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog

2025 2

  1. Intersection Daylighting
  2. Municipal Wealth Fund

2024 1

  1. Building a Culture of Walking

2023 2

  1. Let's Ditch the Stroads
  2. Evaluating a Land Value Tax in Jersey City

2022 1

  1. Let's Regulate For The Places We Want

2021 4

  1. Engineers Should Not Design Streets
  2. The Un-Environmental Review
  3. How to fight those "Boxy Buildings"
  4. The Problem With Focusing On Affordable Rents

2020 4

  1. The Myth of the Template Store
  2. The Scar of Modernity
  3. The Scar of Modern Architecture
  4. The Scar of Modern Urban Planning

2019 6

  1. Lessons from the Streets of Tokyo
  2. Urban Biodiversity
  3. One Size Does Not Fit All
  4. Wayfinding in the Tokyo Subway System
  5. Parking is Harmful to Small Businesses
  6. The Problem with Helicopter Urbanism

2018 10

  1. Aiming for Imperfection
  2. The Causes of Traffic and Congestion
  3. What Does Incrementalism Actually Mean?
  4. What Makes A Place Walkable
  5. The Case for Small Commercial Spaces
  6. The Living City vs. The Mechanical City
  7. A Brief History of Setbacks
  8. You Don't Need Transit To Build A Walkable Place
  9. We Need Complete Neighbourhoods
  10. Surprising Approaches to Achieving Density

2017 8

  1. Setbacks and Land Consolidation
  2. A Simple Guide to Architectural Rendering
  3. Let's explore Maxwell Place Lawn
  4. Let’s explore Van Vorst Park
  5. Subdividing Large Lots for Small Developers
  6. Cites as Platforms of Productivity
  7. Historic Preservation Treats The Symptom Instead Of The Cause
  8. Ride-Sharing and Car Ownership

2016 12

  1. Rethinking Parking as Infrastructure
  2. Washington Street Fantasy Design
  3. Let's Infill A Neighbourhood (And Make A Profit)
  4. Big Boxing The City
  5. Small Bets
  6. An Antifragile Ecosystem of Cities
  7. Organically Grown Cities
  8. Housing Unaffordability is the Result of Artificial Scarcity
  9. Car-Free Life in the City
  10. Encouraging Fine-Grained Development
  11. The Case for One-Way Streets
  12. Unbiased Streets

2015 18

  1. The Case Against Traffic Projections
  2. Let's Build A Village From A Parking Lot
  3. My Car Pays Cheaper Rent Than Me
  4. Thoughts on Gentrification and Affordability
  5. Every City Believes They Have A Parking Problem
  6. Granularity
  7. Blog20150916
  8. Greenspace
  9. Alley Garbage Truck Math
  10. The Last Two Months
  11. Following The Pack - Drive-through Banking
  12. What is 'Complete'?
  13. Sovereign Hill
  14. A Minimal Amount of Thought
  15. Blurred Lines
  16. Some Thoughts on Narrow Streets
  17. A Matter of Priorities
  18. The Negative Consequences of Car Dependency

2014 30

  1. A Look At Traffic Lights
  2. Fine Grained
  3. A Place To Call Home
  4. Building Dense Does Not Have To Be Dense
  5. Top Down Funding
  6. Do Your Transit Leaders Ride Transit?
  7. Shopping Online
  8. Neighbourhoodly
  9. Place:Non-Place Ratio
  10. The Case Against Historical Districts
  11. Strong Towns National Gathering
  12. Zoning and Traffic
  13. Thoughts on Language
  14. Blog20140728
  15. A Blast To A Pre-War Past
  16. Density Without Zoning
  17. Learn To Say No
  18. Craving Energy
  19. Food Courts
  20. Car Dependent By Design
  21. Zoning Systems
  22. A Tale of Two Cities
  23. Narrow Streets
  24. The Problem with Sales Tax
  25. Eco-llusion
  26. Mallville
  27. Pig Buildings
  28. Laneways
  29. The Case for Investing Downtown
  30. Thoughts for 2014

2013 15

  1. Thoughts of a Pedestrian
  2. A Traditional City Primer
  3. Optimizing the Street Grid
  4. Paving Our Streets
  5. What About The Elderly?
  6. Sandbox Urbanism
  7. Public Markets
  8. Copy-and-Paste Towns
  9. Anchors in Urban Environments
  10. Explain Your Vision
  11. This or That?
  12. Why I Use So Many Pictures
  13. Let's Build A Traditional City (And Make A Profit)
  14. Human-Scale Streets
  15. Small-Town Exceptionalism

2012 5

  1. Fortifying Yourself in the Suburban Warzone
  2. Culture Shock
  3. Complete Streets
  4. Places and Non-Places in Cities
  5. The Future of The Automobile

Undated 1

  1. Blog20160920