Architecture
A professor of Architecture and Planning from Germany's Bauhaus University offers the European perspective on Ls Angeles.
The Planning Report
Artist Bill Cochran links new urbanism with public art to promote diversity and join neighborhoods.
The Town Paper
Herbert Muschamp comments on the efforts to rebuild Lower Manhattan in New York and discusses the architectural culture of the city.
The New York Times
Fear of crime is just as damaging as actual crime in a park or other public place: Both keep people away.
Urban Parks Online
One lesson from the terrorist attack is that people avoided modern, out-of-scale development.
Michigan Land Use Institute
An architect and professor chastises her profession for failing to understand how to design truly affordable housing.
The San Francisco Chronicle
A review of the many different ideas for a memorial at the site of New York's World Trade Center.
The New York Times
It will be unlike any other resort on the Strip. Le Reve will feature a Picasso painting by the same name, which Wynn owns.
The Los Angeles Times
Lynden B. Miller says that parks are not "frills." They deserve continued funding even when times get tough because of the benefits they bring to a city.
The New York Times
A UC Berkeley professor outlines an engineering vision for the ultimate safe skyscraper. But at what aesthetic cost?
The San Francisco Chronicle
Neal Peirce comments on the prediction that the Sept. 11th attack signals the end of the skyscraper era and discusses how planning errors of the past can be avoided
The Washington Post Writers Group
U.S. Green Building Council has developed a rating system for evaluating the sustainabilty and environmental friendliness of buildings.
The Washington Post
Moynihan's Trojan-horse proposal for Pennsylvania Avenue went far beyond recommendations for new office space.
Urban Land Magazine
Architects and engineers funded by research grants are studying the debris of the World Trade Center to find clues to the collapse of the buildings.
Architecture Week
Keynote address by Enrique Peñalosa at the Urban Parks Institute's "Great Parks/Great Cities" Conference, July 30, 2001.
Urban Parks Online
Architects praise a visionary plan to transform the center of the town into a car-free zone.
The Town Paper
Is architecture undervalued?
The Guardian Unlimited
Architects and engineers meet in Chicago at a conference to discuss how skyscrapers can be protected from terrorism.
The Chicago Tribune
Architects say that new skyscrapers may incorporate some design changes but the building form is an "American tradition" and will not die. A report from Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Architect William McDonough designs eco-friendly offices and factories.
The Christian Science Monitor
