Architecture
New Urbanist Project Construction Starts Soar
Neighborhood-scale projects completed or under construction rose by 37 percent in 2001.
Philadelphia University's High-tech Strategy
Philadelphia University is using urban design and technology to remake itself as a modern univeristy.
Santiago Calatrava: Moving Architecture
"Superstar" architect Santiago Calatrava's projects include bridges, train stations, and airports.
Competition To Design WTC Memorial
The World Trade Center owners are suggesting a competition to select the design of a memorial site.
Tenants Don't Abandon New York's Tall Buildings
Real estate brokers say tenants haven't fled tall buildings and condominium sales in skyscrapers are coming back to normal.
Ten Dream Buildings That Won't Be Built
The UK's Guardian published it's list of the top 10 buildings that remain "a dream or a nightmare."
Architecture Firms Survive World Trade Center Attacks
How architecture and engineering firms that had offices in New York's World Trade Center survived the Sept. 11th and get back to business with help from competing firms.
The Future Of Cities: The Absurdity Of Modernism
Leon Krier, the godfather of New Urbanism, offers his perspective on the future of cities.
The Other Twin Towers Of New York City
While New York City has lost the famous twin towers of the World Trade Center, other twin towers continue to be part of the city's skyline.
Profile Of A New Town
The new town of Prospect in Colorado is equal parts daring, eclectic and utterly livable.
A New Addition To New York City's Skyline
Herbert Muschamp comments on architect Norman Foster's design for the Hearst Corporation headquarters building in New York.
A European Perspective Of Los Angeles
A professor of Architecture and Planning from Germany's Bauhaus University offers the European perspective on Ls Angeles.
Linking New Urbanism And Public Art
Artist Bill Cochran links new urbanism with public art to promote diversity and join neighborhoods.
Imagining The Future Of Manhattan
Herbert Muschamp comments on the efforts to rebuild Lower Manhattan in New York and discusses the architectural culture of the city.
Conduct A Park Safety Audit
Fear of crime is just as damaging as actual crime in a park or other public place: Both keep people away.
New Yorkers Seek Traditional, Intimate Public Places
One lesson from the terrorist attack is that people avoided modern, out-of-scale development.
Architects Can't Design Affordable Housing
An architect and professor chastises her profession for failing to understand how to design truly affordable housing.
WTC Towers: Many Ideas For A Memorial
A review of the many different ideas for a memorial at the site of New York's World Trade Center.
Las Vegas, NV To Get A New Wynn Resort
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 Important Role Of City Parks
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.
Pagination
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello