Welcome - my name is Kevin Klinkenberg, and this site "The Messy City" is my blog and company website. I started blogging on urban planning and design issues in 2007, and began working in the field in 1993. Please feel free to connect with me on any of the social media sites listed here. Thanks for reading.
David Martin and The Pitch profiles Kevin Klinkenberg in its People and Places section.
In an earlier post I extolled some of the virtues of one-story buildings as a means to "seeding" an urban market in many of our communities. To reiterate, while we still have some fine examples of walkable neighborhoods, the reality is that we've spent decades destroying most of what we had, and building new places with limited walkability at best
