In Their Own Words: Michael Arad
To Know Him Was To Love Him
I was a student of Doug’s, and he will forever remain my mentor. Few people can make us see the world through..
In Their Own Words: Paul L. Knight
Doug Was Preaching His Gospel…
I was an undergraduate student of architecture at Georgia Tech when I first met Doug Allen. I had just e..
Preserving a Legacy: Archiving the Work of Doug Allen
Announcing a collaboration between the Douglas C. Allen Institute and the Georgia Design Alliance Partnership
We all know the story of at..
Support for the G-DAP Endowment for the Doug Allen Archive
In Their Own Words: J. Kenneth Thompson
The First Time I Met Doug…
The first time I met Doug was in 2006 while I was an undergraduate at the university of Georgia studying Lan..
The History of Urban Form Lecture 01: What is a City?
This is an excerpt from Otium Issue 01. To read the full issue, click here. This lecture is also available in video form here.
A note f..
In Their Own Words: Carl Steinitz
Learning About Teaching
I started teaching at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1965 and by the time Doug Allen came to H..
The History of Urban Form Lecture 02, PT I: Measuring Density
This is an excerpt from Otium Issue 02. To read the full issue, click here.
A Note from the Editor:
In Lecture 01, Doug divides ..
Streets: Their History, Importance, and Regulation
Presented by Paul Knight, DCAI President, at the Atlanta City Studio on November 1, 2016, to a packed room full of urbanists. Covers stree..
In less than the lifespan of one of Chicago’s earliest residents, Emily Beaubien Le Beau (1825–1919), Chicago grew from fewer than 100 people into being the fourth-largest city in the world.
Encyclopedia of Chicago
A Brief History of Street Grids in America
The grid has been used continuously throughout the world as a development pattern since Hippodamus first used it in Piraeus, Greece, in th..
Master Street Plans
There is no great city in the world that isn’t made up of a highly connected network of streets. In fact this is the first thing that all ..
A Two-Sentence Subdivision Ordinance
In 1926 the United States created a legal precedent for zoning our cities, through the decision in the Euclid v. Ambler case. This was fur..
Applying the Lessons of History to Future Development
This presentation was delivered at the 2016 National Planning Conference in Phoenix, AZ, by Paul Knight and David Green on April 4.
Som..
Diagramming the Land Ordinance of 1785
Exploring the dimensional DNA of the ordinance that subdivided two-thirds of the United States.