Category: UCP Series

In the Unconventional City Planners series, Mackenna Caughron explores three unconventional planners and their machinations of the city. This is the final part of the 3 part series. Few humans on Earth can claim ownership over our ideals and imaginations more so than Walt Disney. A staunch businessman, ardent innovator, and frequent risk-taker, Walt Disney… Read more UNCONVENTIONAL CITY PLANNERS: PART 3 [SEVEN ARTS CITY, CALIFORNIA]

In the Unconventional City Planners series, Mackenna Caughron will explore three unconventional planners and their machinations of the city. This is part 2 of a 3 part series. I remember first seeing Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man. He was brash, confident, techno-intelligent, and liberal spender. The exemplar of “making it” with… Read more Unconventional City Planners: Part 2 [Starbase, Texas]

In the Unconventional City Planners series, Mackenna Caughron will explore three unconventional planners and their machinations of the city. This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Raised in Senegal and New Jersey. Investor in solar energy. Son of a professor/musician and a dancer. He reminisced on his upbringing, “I was that kid you… Read more Unconventional City Planners: Part 1 – Akon City

Traditionally, our cities represent a great compromise. Our streets, buildings, and governance are an amalgamation of values, pushed forward by stakeholder groups. The city is the result of conflicting forces fighting for their preferred state.  Though the city can be the vision of a single individual. When an individual achieves a level of celebrity, city… Read more Unconventional City Planners: A Series on non-traditional City Planners