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Slate magazine offers a photographic slideshow of the influential New Urbanist community of Seaside, Florida.

What New Orleans can learn from Denver.

A novelist takes on Gehry's gargantuan Atlantic Yards project, proposed for Brooklyn.

Slate publishes a series of articles on human waste, descending to the depths of London's massive and mysterious sewer system and visiting a restored 1865 sewage works, a "sewage school", and the polluted Thames.

The New Urbanist design is expensive, but the concept -- similar to recovery efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake -- shows great promise.

In Indiana, selling a 157-mile toll road to Spanish and Australian investors joins the growing trend of selling pieces of underfunded U.S. infrastructure to foreigners.

Tesco, the world's fifth-largest retailer, is coming to California -- and with its 546 Tesco Express stores in the UK taking up as much land as just six Wal-Mart supercenters, it could bring a new model of retail land use with it.

What would it feel like to commute outside of a two-ton steel cocoon in Los Angeles, on a man-powered vehicle? Turns out, it's rather blissful.

Witold Rybczynski reviews Robert Bruegmann's new book, Sprawl: A Compact History.

A photo essay visits megachurches and uncovers surprising trends in modern church architecture.

Austan Goolsbee explains why a short-term increase in fuel prices is unlikely to change Americans' driving habits.

Jack Schafer argues that Katrina may amount to "creative destruction," and that "[o]nly a sadist would insist on resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime, and deplorable schools."

This rising starchitect is a "quintessential urbanist."

Maybe zoning laws are causing the real-estate bubble.

While plans to rebuild at Ground Zero go through yet another revision of security measures, one commentator asks when is enough too much?

How does Chicago's new Millenium Park compare with the great urban parks of the 19th and 20th centuries?

Q: When is a street not really a street? A: When it's a lifestyle center.

A huge model of Shanghai in the city's "urban planning hall" reproduces the massive building boom on a micro scale.

A century after Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architects are resuming their role in giving shape to cities.

Slate offers a blow-by-blow account of the oral arguments and props offered in Kelo v. New London, the eminent domain case heard by the Supreme Court.