Landscape Architecture
Advocates say an upgraded Hance Park could be a great success for the city, but the move forward has been slow.
azcentral.com
Gender equality has never played such a prominent role in the design of public and urban spaces. The world needs more than superficial, reactionary measures to address the long history of public space as the physical realm of patriarchy.
Behavioral Scientist
The new urban public realm in the United States is highly programmed—some of that design approach reflects the trends of culture and some reflects a history of violence and bad for PR for parks at the end of the 20th century.
American Scholar
Phoenix. Phoenix let the dogs out.
Arizona Republic
Several strategies and initiatives seek to make parks more accessible on foot in the county of Los Angeles. Clement Lau, an L.A. County planner, summarizes a few of these strategies and initiatives.
UrbDeZine
The city of San Francisco is proposing an ambitious renovation of its Civic Center—the series of public spaces connecting Market Street to City Hall.
San Francisco Chronicle
When is a dog park more than just a park for dogs?
CityLab
New York City is holding a competition for a distinctive logo to clearly demarcate all of its 550 privately-owned public spaces.
AM New York
The new linear park will use land under the city’s elevated rail tracks. Worries, however, are emerging about the effects the project will have on surrounding communities, particularly related to affordable housing.
Next City
A proposed waterfront plan has secured the necessary funding to move forward in Seattle, pending City Council approval.
Crosscut
A community initiative says demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and closure of the Battery Street Tunnel offer a chance to turn a series of green infrastructure ideas into reality.
The Urbanist
The plan to top I-5 in Seattle with a cap park—what writer Natalie Bicknell calls "the most ambitious effort in our region"—is moving ahead with a $1.5 million feasibility study.
The Urbanist
Feature
We crunched the numbers on all the features, blog posts, and news articles we published in 2018 to figure out which made the biggest splash with readers.
Dreams look a lot more like reality this week in Dallas.
The Dallas Morning News
Insight from Barcelona and Portland on how to plan and design an active, welcoming neighborhood square.
The Western Planner
The long-anticipated Domino Park, located in front of the former Domino Sugar refinery on the East River in Brooklyn, was designed by James Corner Field Operations (JFCO).
The Architect's Newspaper
The city of San Antonio has a lot of money to spend on trees but not a lot of places to plant them.
San Antonio Express-News
Storm resilience is a key design element of Hunter’s Point South Park in New York.
CityLab
A visit to the park highlights the creative reuse and design that is transforming an old railway into a vibrant public space.
The Washington Post
The Underline will run for ten miles under Metrorail's elevated tracks in Miami.
Miami Herald
