City Journal

Make Small Plans

In contrast to the classic Burnham plea, Andrew M. Manshel says that planning big often misses the essential nature of the urban experience.
20 October 2009 - 1:00pm
City Journal

Bloomberg Pledges to Fix Transit

Last week, New York Mayor Bloomberg released a plan to reform transit in the city. City Journal looks at how that might happen and how New York can pay for it.
10 August 2009 - 8:00am
City Journal

Jane Jacobs, NIMBY?

Howard Husock reads two new books on Jane Jacobs, which he says reveal the unexplored significance of Jacob's activist side, opening the doors to protesting the entire activity of city planning.
3 August 2009 - 2:00pm
City Journal

Washington, Stop Promoting Homeownership

Steven Malanga looks back at a century of efforts by Washington to promote homeownership, which he says 'has produced one calamity after another.'
8 May 2009 - 1:00pm
City Journal

Cities Are Cleaner Than Suburbs

When it comes to carbon emissions, dense cities are better for the environment than anything else, says economists Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard and Matthew Kahn of UCLA. And right now we're inhibiting building where we should be encouraging it.
17 February 2009 - 1:00pm
City Journal

Obama, the 'Tin-Cup Urbanist'

If history is any indicator, Senator Obama's presidential plans to pump more federal money into fixing cities' problems are futile and wasteful, according to Steven Malanga.
29 October 2008 - 7:00am
City Journal

The Transformation of a Neighborhood

Steven Malanga writes about the resurrection of Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood, from its decrepit past.
24 June 2008 - 1:00pm
City Journal

Re-Imagining Suburbs as Towns

This article from City Journal looks at the anti-modernist architect Leon Krier's plan for remaking suburbs into self-contained towns.
12 June 2008 - 5:00am
City Journal

Words Of Advice For The New Urbanism Movement

While The New Urbanism has certainly helped to change the way people think about how communities can be built, it's still seen as a boutique product. More needs to be done if New Urbanist developments are to really compete with mainstream sprawl.
21 April 2008 - 12:00pm
City Journal

Abu Dhabi's Investments In Cultural Development

This article form City Journal looks at the rapidly rising city of Abu Dhabi and its focus on human development.
17 January 2008 - 7:00am
City Journal

Lessons From America's Most Ambitious Infrastructure Project

The City Journal examines lessons from Boston's 35-year, $14.8 billion Big Dig project and asks how can American invest in infrastructure -- and do it intelligently?
10 December 2007 - 7:00am
City Journal

Buffalo Chips

Over the past 75 years, Buffalo, New York, has gone on a long downward spiral of deterioration and depopulation. Instead of pumping money into this failing city, legislators should focus on helping its people, writes Edward L. Glaeser.
26 October 2007 - 11:00am
City Journal

Is the CDBG Program America's Worst Urban Initiative?

Is the Bush administration right to put the community-development block grant out of its misery?
18 April 2005 - 7:00am
City Journal

How Not To Develop New York's West Side

A proposed combined stadium/convention center complex create what is universally recognized as two of the worst economic development engines in urban planning.
31 March 2005 - 11:00am
City Journal

The Curse Of The Creative Class?

Cities rushing to embrace Richard Florida's 'creative class' strategies are likely to be disappointed, writes Steven Malanga.
3 March 2004 - 5:00am
City Journal

Postmodern Monstrosities For Downtown

The newest proposals for Ground Zero understand nothing about New York.
3 January 2003 - 11:00am
City Journal

Can Technology Keep Cities Safe?

We can learn from advances in transportation and congestion planning to develop technology to protect cities from terrorism.
2 January 2002 - 11:00am
City Journal

The World Trade Center's Surprising History

The history of the World Trade Center is a case study in why government should not be involved in private-sector development.
5 November 2001 - 5:00am
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