Bob's Blog

Pedestrian Friendly Neighborhoods
Recreating a Sustainable Southern Nevada – 081810
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Las Vegas has proven to the world we can construct America’s largest schools with the largest enrollments anywhere, but we are failures at keeping children in school through graduation.  One major factor in this failure is the distance between a student’s home and the location of [...]

Increasing Existing Development Densities
Recreating a Sustainable Southern Nevada – 080610
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Rethinking the roles older neighborhood communities, surrounding the urban cores across the valley serve for the future, making them productive and fruitful once again adds to the long-term sustainability of the region.  Plans and zoning provisions for repurposing the Urburbs for tomorrow’s needs should already [...]

Repurposing the Urburbs
Recreating a Sustainable Southern Nevada – 070410
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Taking simple steps to protect and shepherd the valley’s air, water, the desert surrounds and its ecology, and dramatically reducing waste through recycling and composting, Southern Nevada will have accomplished a major goal in achieving its new purpose.  The valley cannot attract new businesses, high-tech manufacturing and [...]

Urban Micro Environments
Repurposing Southern Nevada – 062310
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It’s easy for citizens to deal with urban environments at the macro level because the issues are managed and addressed by government agencies and trained professionals.  That’s not to say we’re especially happy with the results of government’s accomplishments, but large scale macro conditions are well beyond the average [...]

The Next Las Vegas
Repurposing Southern Nevada – 061510
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All communities have four principal characteristics that are additionally defined by macro and micro environments.  First, there is Nature and the ecology of the region; every community also has a Physical Presence that shapes the lives of every citizen; every community revolves around its Society, and every community [...]

Repurposing Las Vegas
Society and Population – 060810
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Any ideas on what we want to become when we grow up?  Do we remain on this see-saw and continue reliving the ups and downs that come with a one-pronged economy; or can we foresee a possible three-legged stool that regardless of how rough the economy turns, the stool [...]

Waking Up in Detroit
Society and Population – 060110
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Las Vegas must awaken to the reality around us!    If we wish to look into a mirror and see ourselves within another perspective, all we have to do is look at Detroit today.  The physical, social and economic drain that has severely damaged Detroit over the last 25 [...]

Feeding Las Vegas
 Values and Political Structures – 051610
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If we are to become a sustainable community in the future, we need to begin relearning how to successfully feed ourselves - living here in the heart of the Mojave Desert.   We can do this individually, one family at a time, or we can work collectively using neighborhood [...]

Values and Political Structures - 040310
 

UNLV’s recent Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Social Survey should awaken all of us to the fact that for the sake of money, we’ve ignored the responsibilities of citizenship and our obligations as residents to make this community a better place to live.  This ignorance begins with each of us and [...]

Values and Political Structures - 031910
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It may be a bi-product of the current recession, or perhaps there’s a growing segment of the valley’s population with changing attitudes towards responsible family life.  In the mornings I see more parents and grandparents walking their children to school.  No doubt, the largest majority of these adults are Latino; [...]