Tag: Urban design

  • The New Kinder-SoH Just Dropped

    The New Kinder-SoH Just Dropped

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    What is Kinder-SoH? Is that a candy from overseas? No. Kinder = The Kinder Institute at Rice University, which is a nationally recognized hub for data-driven research on urban planning. Think: housing, transportation, infrastructure, and climate resilience. For architecture and sustainability professionals, the Institute’s work provides critical insights into the intersection of policy + the…

  • The Grassroots Community of Urban Planning

    The Grassroots Community of Urban Planning

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    There’s a group called Strong Towns. It’s a national group, started by Charles Marohn, with the intent to shift our building priorities from the WWI-era thinking that generated most of them. Some chapters key in on fighting the vampiric dominance of the single-family home model, passing ADU policy, and affordable housing. Here in Houston, we’re…

  • #LostSpacesCommunity2025

    #LostSpacesCommunity2025

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    Moments like this panel is why this organization needs to exist. The Lost Spaces Conference is a yearly event targeting independent developers who plan to do renovate homes in at-risk communities. From a sustainability professional’s point of view, independent developers are the builders committing the largest number of “offenses”. They don’t mean to – we…

  • LISC: Envision Houston

    LISC: Envision Houston

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    On March 26, 2025, LISC Houston hosted their 2nd annual Envision: State of Communities – Neighborhoods Taking Action at the Federal Reserve Bank here in Houston. The focus of the day-long conference was to uplift, highlight, and elevate the people and entities involved in affecting change within the neighborhoods across the City of Houston and Harris…