Monocle Podcast with Better Block COFounder Jason Roberts
The Urbanist hosted by editor Andrew Tuck, asks how the Better Block went from repairing a block in Dallas to a National model for redevelopment. The Urbanist
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Take Away a Zero, Now a Scientific Fact
“Do you want to change things quickly?” he asks. “Remove one zero from the budget. Do you want to change things even more quickly? Remove TWO ZERO’s from the budget.” Former Mayor of Curitiba...
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Better Block a Workaround for all Cities
“A workaround is a bypass of a recognized problem in a system. A workaround is typically a temporary fix that implies that a genuine solution to the problem is needed.” Andres Duany has just launched a...
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Better Block Harvard
How do you change a city? One block at a time. How do you change an institutional body on knowledge? Start at the top! Better Block co-founder Andrew Howard, A.I.C.P. is going to Harvard for a ten...
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Disruptive City, a DIY Real Estate Boom
Think about the disruptive innovations of the twentieth century like Henry Ford’s Model T or Steve Job’s Macintosh personal computer, which started at the bottom of the market and eventually displaced...
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Breaking Codes and the Next Industrial Revolution
A marvel from above, looking out over the sprawling Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, MI. Albert Kahn was known as the architect of Detroit and built more than 400 buildings there. Some of these...
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Form and Ferguson
Everyone wants out of Micheal Brown’s neighborhood (Canfield Green) according to several resident accounts. Now Canfield Green’s residents find themselves trapped in the same kind of segregated,...
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Better Blocking the Harvard School of Design
That’s me, Andrew Howard, co-founder of the Better Block with the 2015 class of Loeb Fellows at the Graduate School of Design. Now half way complete with the year long program, my thoughts have...
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Team Better Block one of 32 Knight Cities Challenge Grant Awardees
Team Better Block was awarded today a $155,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to pursue a project in Akron, Ohio. The funds will be used to convert excess housing stock in the city into boutique...
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Memphis making Better Block Permanent!
Memphis reported an estimated 13,000 people at their Better Block in November 19th and 201th 2010. Since then the area has seen drastic changes to the street including filled storefronts and the first...
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