Sorry about the recent dearth of posts. Here in Montgomery, we recently lost our visionary planning director Ken Groves after a short battle with cancer and its been a trying time. Here is an article that discusses the great planning
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Destoying Black Property = Commemorating Civil Rights
By propertyprof
Slate highlights a property-rights story coming out of Montgomery, Alabama:Over the last decade or so, dozens—perhaps hundreds—of homes in Montgomery have been declared blighted and razed . . . The owners tend to be disproportionately poor and black, and with…
https://www.lexblog.com/2010/08/30/3915972/
I'll be presenting at an upcoming US Green Building event here in Montgomery. If you are in the area and would like to attend, I'll be glad to set it up. Just email me at cemerson@faulkner.edu. More details here…
Recent Land Planning & Development Class Activity…
As part of the ongoing land development simulation that I'm conducting for this year's Land Planning & Development course, I recently had each of the small groups identify the owner of the "Semester Parcel" and describe their method and source…
The “Semester Parcel”…
As I’ve mentioned before, each year in Land Planning and Development, I place the students into small groups where they each “develop” a real piece of land here in Montgomery. The topics they deal with over the course of the…
The One Exam Per Semester Model…
A recent post over at Prawfsblog has some interesting thoughts on the common law school model of grading a student's performance in a semester-long course with only a single exam.I agree that this is really a strange and likely inaccurate…
Mall Farming…
So, how many revisions to the typical municipal zoning code would likely be required to allow this to happen:Shopping malls may be on the brink of major reinvention and adaptive reuse…as farms. The Galleria Mall in Cleveland, Ohio is…
The 24 Hour Service Project Charrette…
…following up on Matt's post regarding this year's big CNU conference in Atlanta, I'll be heading over this afternoon to present at the SmartCode Intensive part of the event.I'm traveling with Montgomery's planning director, Ken Groves, and a handful…
West Fairview Avenue Charrette…
This week, I'm spending a good deal of time at the planning charrette for West Fairview Avenue here in Montgomery. The plan is to revitalize the area and, for regulatory purposes, likely use Montgomery's form-based and transect-based code to implement…
Daily Sprawl Videos…
Like most areas of the country, the Central Alabama River Region has suffered from the residential and commercial real estate problems.To chronicle specific examples, I've begun a series of informal "windshield" tours of problem projects in our region. The first…