This article was submitted to ADN as a letter to the editor and has been republished on intrinsic.city with the author’s permission. On Halloween, I walked the streets around Tudor Elementary, reveling in the growing community of young families that we’ve noted in the four years since we moved here. The neighborhood was alive with […]
This article is a long-form story and different from my usual content. If you want the TLDR version, scroll to the bottom. Fifth and sixth-grade camps were one of the best things about elementary school. At the end of the school year, the entire grade would go on a trip together and overnight in a […]
The grand vision of the Town Center and minimal effort aesthetic design standards.
Now that we’ve eliminated the owner-occupancy mandate, on-site parking requirements, and subordinate structure height restrictions, let’s get to work and shoehorn some new housing into our tight housing market.
There’s nowhere to park downtown! A fallacious yet, common complaint when it comes to going downtown, at least, for some drivers. Anyone who’s ever seen a map of downtown Anchorage will undoubtedly argue that there is plenty of parking. Anchorage has large surface parking lots, but many are privately owned and can be prohibitively expensive, […]
The beige condo complex across the street from New Sagaya City Market on I street is easy to forget. When I saw this listing posted on Zillow for over $800K I had to see why. I’ve never been in this complex before, so I was surprised to see that the large post-modern sloped windows I’ve […]
Transit isn’t just for essential travel, it should provide universal access to Anchorage recreation areas
Did a regressive sign ordinance in the 1970s pave the road to beige?
Cultivating an urban greenspace to scale with Alaska’s largest city
The monstrous blue building known as the 4th Avenue Marketplace is still for sale.
