Adaptive Reuse

New York City is developing a handful of new parks on industrial lands and otherwise underused spaces. Urban Omnibus talks with Adrian Benepe, the city's commissioner of parks and recreation about the new projects.

A historic airfield in Berlin will be transformed over the next year into the city's largest park.

As people move to cities and the outer suburbs begin to become more desolate, what will become of them? WorldChanging envisions the suburbs as the next frontier.

Dumpster diving takes on new meaning as a New York-based design firm reinvents vacant lots as mini-resorts by converting old trash bins into swimming pools.

Artists in Brooklyn are filling a void by converting construction dumpsters into swimming pools.

City manager of Phoenix Frank Fairbanks talks about how the city created a program to advise residents on how to effectively and creatively reuse old buildings.

With goals of LEED-certification and plans for reuse after the games, Vancouver's Olympic Village is being called a model for event-based sustainability.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced its list of America's most endangered places.

Preconceptions and lofty goals surround New York's soon-to-open High Line park. But the unprecedented inner city rail line conversion leaves much up in the air, according to this piece from The Architect's Newspaper.

Officials in New York are pushing a plan to reuse foreclosed or abandoned condo projects as affordable housing.

A panel of experts weighs in on what cities should do with their dying shopping malls.

A massive WWII-era airfield in Berlin has been closed down, but city officials are looking for ways to take advantage of the large space. New ideas abound -- from a proposal for a "red light" district to plans for an artificial mountain.

This slideshow from Slate looks at how to reuse abandoned big boxes.

This article looks at some adaptive reuse projects that successfully preserve the beauty of Boston's late-nineteenth century infrastructure.

The underground missile silos of the Cold War-era are still around, but they're not being used. Some people have moved in to reuse one in Kansas as a home.

Strip malls could be the next frontier for urban redevelopment, according to Chris Nelson.

Preservationists say that there are better ways to use buildings along Brooklyn's industrial waterfront than to demolish them.