Newsday

The new Time Warner Center will cost $1.8 billion and become the most expensive single building ever planted in American soil.

An emerging national trend indicates that citizens are increasingly willing to pay to protect open space.

Is the campaign to realign the nation's environmental policies a needed adjustment, or a gutting of environment laws?

Despite a recent renaissance, the borough struggles to overcome a negative perception among big retailers.

A new study from Rutgers University shows Long Island's suburbs sagging as New York City's numbers grow. One expert says, "This relentless suburbanization has reached its low tide."

Four teams of architects previewed plans for the abandoned railway corridor running along Manhattan's West Side.

Daniel Libeskind's suit against Silverstein Properties claims the developer is punishing the architect for protesting changes to the master plan.

Author Paco Underhill's new book looks at the effects of psychology on the shopping experience.

Once a working-class escape, Mastic Beach's dense grid and small lots have been a hindrance to development. Now local leaders are trying to undo decades of urban mismanagement.

Giant corporations are trying to create workspaces that encourage - or require - employees to get more exercise.

The world-famous designer's next buildings will reshape Manhattan's skyline.

As Americans mourn the death of former President Reagan, Professor Peter Dreier remembers Reagan as the worst housing president ever.

Fess Parker, TV's 'Davy Crockett,' and the Chumash Indians hope to turn Santa Ynez into a vacation paradise. Locals fear a loss of community as the Chumash can ignore zoning through federal law.

Using a grant from Rehabilitation Through Photography, a year-long elective at one New York City school concentrated on redeveloping 5.5 acres of Flushing, Queens.

Despite 30,000,000 unused acres, the Department of the Interior hopes to lease more environmentally-sensitive areas to drilling firms. Watchdogs argue VP Cheney is using the plan as corporate welfare for his industry cronies.

After five decades, suburbanization may be slowing and even declining according to a study by Rutgers University.

A study finds that the condition of children with asthma living near the World Trade Center was worsened by the 9/11 attack.

Residents and workers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn sued the Environmental Protection Agency for misleading the public about air quality after the 9/11 attacks

The National Building Museum's new display spotlights developing housing for mixed income levels.

New York's Nassau County economic development agencies operated as though they were exempt from financial rules, according to a county audit.