Landscape Architecture
A new park in Tulsa, Oklahoma designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh could transform the city
The New York Times
Vancouver combined environmental goals and traffic safety goals.
Sightline Institute
Some cities treat skateboarders like a plague, and that's a planning faux pas, according to this article.
Greater Greater Washington
The popular game Minecraft offers deep lessons what building in the virtual world means in the real world.
Places Journal
The $2.16 billion Transbay Transit Center opens to the public on August 11, with bus service launching on August 12.
San Francisco Chronicle
Cities around the country are scrambling with ways to accommodate monuments to a past that many consider as oppressive.
National Public Radio
Richard Lewis Haag left a profound legacy in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
In post-bankruptcy Detroit, planner Maurice Cox and his interdisciplinary team are making vacancy an asset, revitalizing through preservation, and listening to residents who know the city the best.
Urban Omnibus
Who knew green infrastructure was such a divisive topic?
Greater Greater Washington
An idea that began with a group of parents looking for a place for their kids to play will become a reality.
Greater Greater Washington
Feature
Thanks to the Australian-American Fulbright Commission and UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign, fundamental relationships at the heart of urban public health and livability are under scrutiny in tropical Australia.
The Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge has produced nine designs to address sea-level rise and flooding around the San Francisco Bay Area.
ASLA The Dirt
Where do the street trees come from, and where does the compost go? Rikers Island was New York City's growing outpost for years. But does “greening” the jail always improve things for prisoners?
Urban Omnibus
The winner of a competition to design the Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis hopes landscape architecture can inspire a larger conversation about race and class.
Landscape Architecture Magazine
Englewood is a predominately black neighborhood in Chicago, struggling with vacancies and the effects of failed urban policies. A bike and pedestrian path could be a huge benefit, but that benefit would look a lot different than other parts of city.
Streetsblog Chicago
A new park on the East River in Williamsburg adds "one hell of an amenity" to Brooklyn.
Gothamist
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Blair Kamin assesses the remodeled Gateway Arch in St. Louis, prior to its big public opening on July 3.
Chicago Tribune
Buoyed by a strong economy and robust fundraising, a wide variety of arts institutions in Milwaukee want to remodel or relocate to new buildings. Here's a look at some of their plans.
Urban Milwaukee
New York City hasn't been able to keep the beach from eroding.
The New York Times
Transportation tax funding has suddenly been diverted to a park project in Atlanta, and a few voices want to know why. The project still gained approval, however.
SaportaReport
