Architecture
North America's Top 20 Neighborhoods
Project for Public Spaces selects the best spots to live, work, and hang out.
Can Tesco's Architects Ever Satisfy The Critics?
The British supermarket giant Tesco has carefully designed some new superstores, but it's branches are still "breeding like shrink-wrapped rabbits."
New Mexico Developer Inspires Baltimore Planners
Vision for more compact development used as a model in Baltimore County.
A Reality Show For Those Who Hate Ugly Architecture
A "reality" series will let viewers nominate ugly buildings and will conclude with the demolition of the ugliest building on live television.
Improving The Built Environment In The Muslim World
The National Building Museum honors His Highness The Aga Khan with the 2005 Vincent Scully Prize.
What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?
PPS examines the changes needed to begin to view urban elements as interrelated components of a single place.
Combining A Lifestyle Mall With New Urbanism
A makeover of Santa Monica's popular Third Street Promenade would increase mixed use and demolish an enclosed mall to create a new lifestyle center.
The Nation's Most Expensive Building
The new Time Warner Center will cost $1.8 billion and become the most expensive single building ever planted in American soil.
Patron Derides Gehry's University Circle Brainstorm
At a dinner held by Cleveland's University Circle, Inc., a potential patron launced an unexpected 15-minute critique.
Conceiving A Sustainable Future In The Egyptian Desert
A progressive industrial park on the banks of the Nile aims to restore the balance between economic growth and environmental quality.
High-end Mixed Use On The Strip
Three billion dollar project in Vegas emphasizes living spaces and other nongambling features.
New Social Idealism For Architects Needed
A call for modernism to recover the sense of social purpose it enjoyed in the early 20th century.
$100-Million University Boulevard Architectural Design Competition
Creating a world-class college town is the impetus behind the competiton hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
A Critical Look At Playa Vista
Writer Morris Newman takes a hard look at what's actually been built at Playa Vista, the long-planned development on the Los Angeles waterfront.
A Memorial To A Once-Lively Street
Nine years after it was closed to traffic, Pennsylvania Avenue emerges from the shadow of the White House.
Reality TV Redoes Small Towns
A cable channel (no, not Disney) is filming a new reality TV show in which a design team will "reimagine, repaint, repair, and restore small towns" across the U.S.
Shanghai's City Planners Struggle With Unremitting Growth
While Shanghai has been rising faster and higher than any city in the history of the world, the city itself is slowly sinking.
A Federal Housing Strategy Urged for Canada
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is advocating a four-point strategy to address Canada's affordable housing crisis.
Ireland Removes Limits On Superstores
Ireland may eliminate its 65,000 s.f. retail size maximum limit so that superstores can be built.
Splendid and Subtle Urbanism for the Modern
The latest addition to the Museum of Modern Art takes over a whole block of midtown Manhattan – and demonstrates how "modernism has moved from the cultural fringe to the mainstream."
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
City of Moorpark
City of Tustin
Tyler Technologies
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
