Honoring Architecture's Highs and Lows for 2013
"Like the Nieman Marcus catalog, the Rockettes, and Mannheim Steamroller, the Lunch With The Critics Year-End Awards has become a holiday tradition, beloved and hotly anticipated," write the audacious critics. Lange and Lamster sharpen their critical pencils for a year end review of the stupid and sublime. Here's a sample:
"Marion Barry Award for Civic Responsibility: To Rob Ford, who transformed the often dull business of municipal governance into an R-rated gift that won’t stop giving."
"Unfortunate Design Trend of the Year: In cities worldwide, billionaires forsake estates and classic sixes for supertall luxury tower aeries. This is urbanism?"
"The Man Who Would Be King Award: To Mike Bloomberg. For better and worse, he transformed New York City as no one since Robert Moses. It will be a different place without him."
- Report: No City or State in the U.S. Has Enough Housing for Low-Income Residents
- Scooter Media Brief: Safety, Security, and Business Models Raise Concerns
- Review: The Hudson Yards Mega-Development, Open to the Public Today
- Proposed Mega-Development Would Expand Chicago's Skyline
- 3D Printing Affordable Housing at Scale
- Home Builders Aren't Building the Smaller Homes the Market Wants
- It Takes a Fatality to Remove On-Street Parking
- Where Gas Taxes Only Serve the Needs of More Sprawl
- Many Norms, Few Plans: Urban Rubble Clearance in the Cities of the Global South
- Concrete’s Contribution to the Rise and Decline of Civilization
- Where a Freeway Plan Failed, a Development Opportunity Rises
- New Mexico Legislation Charts Path Away From Coal, But It Won't Be Easy
- Trump Administration Continues to Delay Allocated Transit Funds
- A 'Walk in the Park' Needs a 'Walk to the Park'
- Bike Share Could Help Increase Transit Ridership
- L.A.'s Plan for Vermont Ave: BRT in 2024, Rail in 2067
- Seattle Give Final Approval to 27 Upzones
- Recycling Is Cancelled
- Trump Official Done with a Month-Long Stay in New York Public Housing
- Density Increases Near Transit Station in D.C. But Ridership Does Not
