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Yeah but the land area of L/A is something like 80 miles (Auburn alone is 60 I believe) whereas Portland has about 1/3 land area and still 5,000 more people. And the density outside of Portland is higher, too, not to mention the people/demographics are vastly different between the two places...

FIL doesn't apply to res? That's a major shortcoming. However, Federated's project is so big that it masks the fact that included amongst its residential aspect is enough retail to fill 1/10 of the Maine Mall's square footage (100,000 sf) as well as a hotel and office tower. As for the...

By moving the arena to the end (left in rendering) and arranging the four freestanding structures to create a "street" whether used by cars or just pedestrians, a 'place' might be designed that is greater than the sum of its parts, which is the point of urban design (many people conflate urban...

Shoreland zoning may prevent redevelopment of the parking lots nearest the water, and I fail to note the pedestrian prom in this rendering (do you think it's that gray arae between buildings?). Also, for better or worse, the freeway will be the vantage point from which most people see this...

Edit -- I don't think the FIL ordinance applies here, does anyone know for sure?

Quality urban design is sorely lacking in that site layout--what a shame. For a gateway to one of the most livable, walkable and lovable cities in the northeast, this is something I would personally rather see hidden out by the mall somewhere. The largest office building has more square...

From today's Sun Journal:

John, have you seen the urban design packet RFQ released to the AIA? It has massing and shows some pretty impressive structures.

JohnA Keith, what do you mean by standard distance between buildings? I have a hard time believing that a distance of nearly 8 residential stories is equivalent to the horizontal distance which on average separates structures in a dense city like Boston. Did I misunderstand you? Aren’t most...

It depends on what the Comp Plan Has in mind for that area, not what a few residents at the public meeting say. Studies routinely show that public meetings are perhaps the worst form of public engagement. They are at dinnertime, when people with families are eating, well, dinner, and it is...

As I see it, the benefit in retaining historic areas is that they are typically so much better at creating a certain kind of "place" that people are interested in. However, usually urban designers realize that in intimate public settings like Exchange Street, frequent entrances do just as much...

This has been in the pipeline for a while. The ISNA has been keeping track of the property purchases of this fella for over a year....keeps growing his portfolio, which led many to believe something was in the works. Now we know what. India Street is indeed a good place for development. The...

That site with a 7 story building? I'm not sure that's appropriate. But I guess it would depend on design. I am completely in favor of height, but would rather see it downtown. The west end square at Pine and Brackett is a neat little place. If the cumbies was redeveloped, it would truly be...