SUMMARY of BLOG ESSAYS

 I thought it might be helpful to publish a complete list of my blog essays to date as one complete document for ease of reference. The essays in italics were written after publication of the collection in “Symbiotic Architecture”. The italicized titles are only available on my blog and on Linked-In. Some, but not all, of the earlier titles are available on Linked-In.

	Walter M. Hosack
Year/Mo/Order
10.9.1	Replacing Density
10.9.2	The City is a Farm
10.10.1	Examining Architecture Part 1
10.10.2	The Disorganized Zoning Ordinance
10.10.3	The Limits of Shelter Capacity
10.11.1	The Variance Contradiction
10.12.1	Land Use Plans & Ponzi Schemes
11.1.1	Hidden Implications of Design Decisions
11.1.1	Strategy is Missing from Economic Development
11.2.1	A Tool for Containing Sprawl
11.4.1	Design Specifications & Shelter Intensity
11.4.2	Parking Lot Design Implications
11.5.1	Dwelling Unit Design Implications
11.6.1	Measuring Design Excellence - Sullivan & Wright
11.7.1	The Symbiotic City
11.8.1	Symbiotic Architecture
11.9.1	City Design for Economic Stability
11.10.1	Citizen Participation is not Leadership
11.10.2	City Design with Space
11.10.3	Design for Survival
11.10.4	Education
11.10.5	Education Preamble
11.10.6	Pitch and Catch
11.10.7	Predict Shelter Options within Limited Built Domain
11.10.8	Protecting the Planet
11.10.9	Talent and Leadership
11.11.1	A New Language for Architecture & City Design
11.11.2	Strategic & Tactical Architecture
11.12.1	Improving Arguments for Architecture & City Design
11.12.2	A Tool for Containing Sprawl
11.12.3	An Overlooked Threat to the Family of Man
11.12.4	Conceptual Design & Architectural Scope
11.12.5	Land is a Critical Design Element
11.12.6	The Public Benefit of Architecture
12.1.1	City Design Synopsis
12.1.2	City Design-Urban Design-Architecture
12.1.3	Context, Capacity & Intensity
12.1.4	Examining Architecture Part 2
12.1.5	Form Follows Invention
12.1.6	Logic & Knowledge in Design
12.1.7	Parking Variances - A Glimpse into the Future
12.1.8	Population and Intensity
12.1.9	Questions About City Planning & Architecture
12.1.10	Recalling Michelangelo
12.1.11	Shelter, Survival and Design
12.1.12	Sustainability
12.1.13	Vitruvius Revisited
12.2.1	A Common Imperative
12.2.2	Intensity is Measurement for Survival
12.2.3	The Problem w City Planning
12.2.4	What is Architecture?
12.3.1	Introduction to Intensity
12.3.2	Recalling Linnaeus
12.3.3	The Symbiotic Goal
12.4.1	John Muir & Architecture
12.4.2	Response to the Problems with City Planning
12.4.3	Taking the Pulse of Architecture
12.5.1	First Prority of Architecture
12.6.1	Architectural Education Dialogue Part 1
12.6.2	Architectural Education Dialogue Part 2
12.6.3	Architectural Education Dialogue Part 3
12.6.4	Core Issues Parts 1-2 Szymanik Inquiry
12.6.5	Five Categories of Architecture
12.6.6	Harnessing Architectural Curriculum Pt 1-2-3
12.6.7	The Other Architectural Puzzle CG1B
12.7.1	Criticism, Questions & Ideas
12.7.2	Relevance
12.7.3	Replacing the Floor Area Ratio
12.7.4	Seriously
12.7.5	The Significance of Gross Building Area
12.8.1	Searching for Answers
12.8.2	Shelter, Space & Intensity
12.9.1	Plan with Architectural Intensity
12.10.1	The Influence of Design Decisions
12.10.2	Quantifying Intuition
12.11	The Built Domain
13.1.1	Problem Solvers
13.1.2	The Many Faces of Architecture
13.3.1	Free Enterprise & Architecture
13.4.1	Symbiotic Knowledge
13.5.1	Sound Bytes from Architecture
13.6.1	Commentary - Part 1
13.6.2	Leadership & Design
13.9.1	The Design Decisions That Matter
13.9.2	The Greatest Invention
13.10.1	Repositioning
13.11.1	Fundamental Questions
14.1.1	Sustainability & First Ring Suburbs
14.1.2	To the Philippines & Malaysia
14.1.3	Traffic Lights
14.2.1	Scoundrels in Law
14.4.1	Tacit Knowledge
14.5.1	Reply to Tacit Knowledge Comment
14.11.1	A Plan Review
15.1.1	Lesson from the Duomo
15.1.2	Reconsidering Architecture
15.1.3	Two Questions with Follow-up
15.2.1	A Fork in the Road
15.2.2	Architectural Practice and Profession
15.2.3	Comments Worth Pondering
15.2.4	Survival
15.3.1	Design Leadership
15.3.2	Two Question Follow-up
16.7.1	Advertise The Science of City Design
16.7.2	Excerpts from The Science of City Design
16.7.3	The Science of City Design
16.8.1	City Planning & Design Basics
16.8.2	Repeating Success
16.9.1	Pop-up Urban Projects
16.9.2	Shaping the Future With Opinion
16.9.3	Urban Renewal
16.10.1	Removing the Blindfold from Economic Development
16.10.2	The Human Scale
16.11.1	Land Use & Urban Form
16.11.2	Power, Policy & Planning
16.12.1	Architecture, Agriculture & Planning
16.12.2	Graduating from The Floor Area Ratio
17.1.1	Restoring the Health of Cities
17.2.1	Arguing for a Science of City Design
17.2.2	Strategic Architecture
17.2.3	Surface Parking Limits on Shelter Capacity
17.2.4	The Concept
17.2.5	Updating a Comprehensive Plan
17.3.1	Adapting Our Cities to Reality
17.3.2	Improving the Influence City Planning & Design
17.4.1	Addendum to What is Architecture
17.4.2	Townhouse & Apartmentt Density Exposed
17.5.1	A Cautionary Comment
17.6.1	A Debate Over Architectral Beauty & Taste
17.7.1	Grenfell Tower
17.7.2	Replacing Density - Updated
17.7.3	Zoning Conflict & Opportunity
17.8.1	Competing to Consume
17.8.2	Core Area Restrictions on Shelter Capacity
17.8.3	The Future of Cities
17.8.4	Understanding a Building Footprint
17.9.1	Leading Shelter Capacity, Intensity and Context Results
17.9.2	The Future of Shelter
17.10.1	Comparing Shelter Des Decisions 11.4rev
17.10.2	G1.R1 Single-family Detached Home Dilemma
17.12.1	Reply to Architectural Criticism
18.1.1	An Expanded Role for Architecture
18.1.2	Architectural Capacity & Shelter Intensity within a Limited Built Domain
18.2.1	The Least a Smart City Should Know
18.3.1	Elected & Appointed City Planning & Design Decisions
18.3.2	Facing Reality on a Finite Planet
18.3.3	Open Space Metric
18.6.1	Learning to Lead the Formation of Cities
18.7.1	Visualizing the City
19.1.1	Correlating Economic & Real Estate Development
19.3.1	A Question from Kabul
19.3.2	Back Cover
19.4.1	Planning Our Presence
19.4.2	Response to Bill Gates re Land Consumption
19.5.1	Shelter Design Basics
19.6.1	A Collision of Architectural Opinion
19.6.2	Shelter Sprawl
19.8.1	Unstable Land Use Allocation
19.9.1	Larry Discussion
19.10.1	Benefit of Land Use-Urban Form Correlation
20.3.1	A Farmer Knows More
20.4.1	Density and Covid-19
20.4.2	Planning with Economic Development Homework
20.8.1	Zoning Design Specifications
20.10.1	Contributing Knowledge
20.12.1	Measuring the Intensity of Place
21.2.1	Design Decisions that Determine Apartment Density
21.3.1	Design Decisions that Determine Single-Family Detached Housing Density
21.3.2	Design Decisions that Determine Townhouse Density
21.4.1	Design Decisions that Determine Single-Family Subdivision Density
21.7.1	Land Use & Development Capacity Correlation
21.8.1	Shelter, Sprawl, and Survival
21.10.1	The Equations of Urban Design
21.12.1	Not Published - Architecture - Fine Art
22.2.1	Concerning Our Presence on the Planet
22.3.1	The Consequences of City Design Decisions
22.7.1	Urban Design
22.8.1	A Scientific Approach to Zoning Plan Review
22.9.1	Shelter Capacity
22.12.1	The Land We Take for Granted
22.12.2	Confronting Sprawl with an Adequate Language
23.1.1	Interpreting the Planet's Law of Limits
23.1.2	Zoning Plan Review
23.2.1	Annexation
23.2.2	The Public Policy - City Design Disconnect
23.2.3	The Implications of Shelter Capacity Design Decisions
23.4.1	The Decisions Needed
23.4.2	The Pattern of a Master Plan