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Nels Nelson's notes on urban planning and design
I’m Nels Nelson, an urban planner and designer focused on healthy and resilience places, land use optimization, and data-driven analysis. My intention with these notes is to share my thoughts with the urbanism community. I encourage engagement and welcome your feedback.
Opportunities and issues with using crowdfunding models for civic infrastructure.
A discussion of the social dimension of ecological objects.
Generic two-family house financial proforma for owner-occupied and rental units and policy discussion.
Helping communities find common ground for action.
Book review of Haussmann’s Paris: A Model’s Relevance. Benoit Jallon, Umberto Napolitano, and Franck Boutté. Park Books; Bilingual edition, 2017.
Other publications
A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19: Pandemic prevention, Stantec, 2019 (contributing author)
Deep Dive into Community Scale Rating Systems, Walk21 Rotterdam, 2019
Walking—our oldest mode of transportation—can inform the future of urban mobility, Stantec, 2020
Piecing together resilient cities, UNDP, 2018
Like People, Diseases Travel Fast These Days, CityLab, 2018 (co-author)
What if your neighborhood could make you healthier?, Stantec, 2018
Designing the World’s First WELL Community [PRESENTATION VIDEO], Livable Cities, 2018
Boston's Guide to Placemaking for Mobility: Reclaiming streets for the people, Stantec, 2017
How good urban design can make city residents healthier, Stantec, 2016
Cyclifiers: an investigation into actors that enable intra-urban metabolism, Cyclifier.org, 2015 (co-author)
The Use of Carbon Credit Mechanisms to Finance Transportation Improvements in the Developing World, CODATU XV, 2012 (co-author)
