tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55381674339293482122024-02-18T23:55:02.520-05:00Frank UrbanismNew Urbanism and old, cities, towns, TND, TOD, mixed-use, infill, transportation, green infrastructure and building, sustainable development and agriculture. These are some of the topics I'll tackle.Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-13354634120165053402014-09-16T04:44:00.000-04:002014-09-16T04:44:17.531-04:00The City as iPhone
Following the announcement of the Apple Watch, I read two
newspaper articles today that said basically the same thing: the device is a sort of blank platform without (as of
now) the “killer app” that will make it an indispensable accessory, like the
smartphones we have all become so attached to. The writers note this is Apple’s genius – create a platform
with an elegant user Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-49861997179454711982014-01-14T18:40:00.001-05:002014-01-14T18:40:49.673-05:00Things I Remember . . . To ComeI'm working on a new series of posts about my Granddad Starkey's "book" Things I Remember, which I have discovered is a fascinating portrait of an Early 20th Century American city. Cool stuff!Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-8678467832871785692012-08-15T23:22:00.000-04:002012-08-15T23:22:15.664-04:00EoS v. EoM - Further thoughtsRob Steuteville, publisher of Better! Cities & Towns, suggested a follow-up post dealing with how one employs the Economy of Means for real estate development. This isn't precisely a response to that, but it explores the EoS/EoM dialogue in light of some recent books I've read. Rob references James H. Kunstler's The Long Emergency.
For a number of years I've been pointing out Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-81896918858065089552012-04-12T16:45:00.000-04:002012-04-12T16:45:23.124-04:00Legible UrbanismThere is often a desire to
reintroduce specific traditional business models (like the corner store)
to populate the neighborhood centers we all like to see. However, that
can meet a brutal reality in an economic realm that is occupied by
Walmart and ubiquitous, cheap transportation. Those cynical of urbanism
will hold this up as "proof" that traditional urbanism has gone extinct
Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-47274997444889772962011-11-16T10:57:00.000-05:002011-12-07T15:07:33.854-05:00Dispatches from the Bleeding Edge - EoS v. EoM 1
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The lectures are organized as 4 pairs of lectures:
Pair 1 looks at the history of New Urbanist development as the "Renaissance" of urbanism. First, the Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-25076337880750526192010-12-26T22:46:00.000-05:002010-12-26T22:46:52.348-05:00Imagining Florida Essay Summary
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There are five major ways in which the second era town is different from the first era town – five ways in which the second era town is deficient
FIRST The second-era town wrecks the landscape, both natural and man-made. The blurred Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-61228102029194854602010-05-24T23:31:00.001-04:002010-05-24T23:33:26.216-04:00Why I Do (and how and what)<!--StartFragment--> Longleaf – Downtown Longleaf – Businesses of Downtown Longleaf – Town Ground Frank Starkey – May 13,2010 Why? We are about connecting people: We believe that people connected are better than people separated; We believe that a society of connected people is better than a society of separated individuals; We believe that people Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-46518197345803636092009-09-10T10:42:00.003-04:002009-09-10T11:11:11.164-04:00"Conservative" transportation policy?I was struck by one of the comments to an Orlando Sentinel article on transportation. The article featured my friend and former consultant Billy Hattaway, who advocates both "Road Diets" (reducing pavement width to make roads more civilized) and mass transit.The first commenter comes out of the blocks on what he labels "liberal" transportation policy (transit), implying that our current system Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-17781978248569617802009-06-25T12:26:00.004-04:002009-06-25T17:38:07.944-04:00Trust Fund Kids and Gulf DrillingOil is like a zillion dollar trust fund given to us by super-rich grandparents, which we have been spending with reckless abandon. In fact, we've been profligately paring down the principle, under the drunken delusion that the endowment is endless.Oil under the Eastern Gulf of Mexico is like a $10,000 savings bond, also given to us by our forebears. A nice sum which, if invested wisely, could Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-16231281329898476192009-06-23T09:26:00.004-04:002009-06-23T09:57:47.305-04:00What's a boy to do?There is a nexus between agriculture, human habitat, jobs, economic development, renewable energy, education and entrepreneurship; the way our species functions. For the last century that nexus was a system based on fossil fuel, a system which is unsustainable by definition, and which in fact has been proven to be rather destructive in many ways. For the coming century it'll have to be Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-87990758690911489162009-06-22T15:33:00.003-04:002009-06-22T15:42:49.471-04:00Vitamins - good and uselessHealth experts tell us that some cheap vitamin tablets are useless because they don’t dissolve. Even though they contain ingredients that would be beneficial our bodies, they pass through without ever being absorbed into our system. We may tell ourselves “I took my Vitamins” but in reality, we’ve gained none of their benefits. When it comes to urbanism, many jurisdictions - including Pasco Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-26254997254367089822009-06-08T18:28:00.001-04:002009-06-08T18:30:34.949-04:00Rays StadiumI've posted the following to the St. Pete Times Editor, in response to today's editorial. (see the link above)The current discussion about future regional growth focuses on transit, infill and redevelopment. The Stadium should be the leader in that shift, and a downtown location is the place to do it. Think small and think urban. The problem with the Trop is that it’s too big, and too Frank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538167433929348212.post-34609616991452261862009-06-08T08:42:00.001-04:002009-06-08T09:35:27.474-04:00Blog Number OneRather than write my thoughts, observations, analyses, and ideas in the form of letters with no addressee, essays to no-one in particular, or journal entries to myself, I have decided to throw them out there to the Blogosphere.I hope someone else finds these to be of use, and that this corner of the internet improves an actual street corner in the real world. I believe in urbanism. The CongressFrank Starkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16108096388088155903noreply@blogger.com0