Newsweek

How low will planners in Tokyo go to free up open space in one of the most populous and densely packed metropolises in the world?

Fleeing the crowded, polluted city was supposed to be good for your health. But suburbs have some definite ills as well.

Forget trailer parks as bland low-rent subdivisions. New designs are making prefabricated housing hip.

Newsweek offers an insightful perspective into how memorials have changed over the last century.

A neighborhood facing contamination-related health problems brings dejavu to Love Canal and the creation of the Federal Superfund law, and asks how far we have come in addressing environmental justice.

Newsweek reviews the shimmering, soaring Walt Disney Concert Hall. It could rival Gehry' Guggenheim Museum.

Lyme disease is linked to suburban development. Rapid urban growth makes the world's cities more vulnerable to SARS and other pandemics.

An obscure and radical theorist becomes architecture's hottest new star. Here is the story of Daniel Libeskind.

"The primary function of the new site must be the primary function of the old" says Kai Thompson whose husband died at Ground Zero.

What makes the leading two design for the World Trade Center site competition popular?

UCLA creates a 3-D virtual model of ancient Rome.

Celebrity architect Rem Koolhaas' unusual design for a skyscraper in Beijing -- his largest project to date -- uses an innovative structural system.

This article challenges our perception of the European Union: a group of nations, or a group of regions? Expressing ideas similar to those in Joel Garreau's Nine Nations of North America, this is macro-planning at its largest.

with new downtown apartments and striking new public buildings, downtown Los Angeles is buzzing with architectural excitement and urban energy.

The whole world is watching the process of rebuilding Ground Zero and downtown Manhattan.

Newsweek examines the common features of international cultural meccas. How does your city shape up?

Newsweek builds a list of the most vibrant international cultural meccas.

Craig Robins plans a "New Urbanist" community for Miami, Florida

In a "surprising reversal" big retailers are downsizing stores in response to demographic and real estate realities.

Despite 9/11 the race to build the world's tallest buildings continues. A look at the new ultra-tall skyscrapers from around the world.