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  Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part I

  Simmons Buntin | Mon, Aug 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Denver | Tags: tucson, simmons buntin, denver, new urbanism, civano, stapleton, town planning, boulder, prospect new town, neotraditional development, bradburn village, urban planning, longmont, westminster, modernist architecture | 3

  The metropolitan Denver area has become America’s greatest urban canvas, and a tour of some of the region’s New Urbanist neighborhoods demonstrates why. Join Simmons Buntin and his host, urban planner Carolyn Dooling, as they tour Stapleton in Denver, Bradburn Village in Westminster, and Prospect New Town in Longmont, discovering places with soul.

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  Designing Beyond the Virtual City

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, architecture, website, facebook, urban design compendium, town planning, urban design, city design, christopher alexander, good city form, kevin lynch, website design, resources, pattern languge | 0

  This website design process got me thinking about the city design process, and what they’ve got in common.  Does the virtual translate to the concrete?  No matter how technology changes, the process used to design websites is fundamentally the same.  Is that also true for cities?

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