Urbanism

Creating the Post-Hipster City: In Conversation With Urbanist Aurash Khawarzad

Tida Tippapart | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: New York Around Town, New York Hipster, New York City Urban, New York Architecture, Aurash-Khawarzad, Urbanism, Brooklyn Hipster, New York City, New York Art, Culture News

Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash Khawarzad speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.

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Hunger Games Approved For Release In China: Should Architects Be Scared?

Mitch McEwen | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Politics, HUnger Games, Architecture, The Hunger Games China, Development, Urbanism, New York City, The Hunger Games, China, Home News

Now that The Hunger Games phenomenon is set to be released next month in China, it may be a moment to ask -- where, as architects, do we see ourselves in this allegory?

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Walking the Walk With Jane

Roberta Brandes Gratz | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Jane-Jacobs-Urban-Planning, Urban Planning, Urbanism, Jane Jacobs, Jane Jacobs Walk, Jane Jacobs Walks, Impact News

Not only are the walks a great example of just the self-organization Jacobs celebrated, but it is run exclusively by dedicated volunteers whose commitment to the Jacobs precepts brings them together in a totally organic way.

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Bicycles Run Through It: L.A. 20 Years On

Frank Gruber | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: American Planning Association, Ciclavia, La Around Town, Urbanist Books, American Planning Association National Planning Conference, Urbanist Literature, Urbanism, Los Angeles News

For five hours, miles of streets connecting Hollywood and East L.A. through downtown Los Angeles were closed to cars and became a great festival of mostly cyclists, but also skateboarders, roller-bladers, and pedestrians.

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What Does Trayvon's Shooting Mean for Architects and Urbanists?

Mitch McEwen | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Housing, Common Law, Brooklyn, Trayvon Martin, Architecture, Timothy Stansbury, Gated Communities, Urbanism, Arts News

With the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, the worlds of architecture and urbanism cannot afford to hear no evil/see no evil this time.

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Universities and Cities: Place-Based Anchors of City Development and Individual Accomplishment

Paula Allen-Meares | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Higher Education, Economic Development, University of Illinois, Chicago, Urbanism, Education News

The importance of urban research universities is clearly manifest in the scale of the impact, the "footprint," of the university in its city. By late in the last decade, urban research universities were among the top employers in every one of their respective cities.

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PHOTOS: Becoming Urbanized: Photos Of The Human Condition

wejetset | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Photography, South Korea, Cities, Urbanism, China, Slidepollajax, Travel News

For the first time in China's history, more people live in a city than they do countryside -- 51.27 percent to be exact, which amounts to more than 690 million people. It's a notable shift.

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A Back of the Napkin Plan to Run NYC Garbage Trucks on Restaurant Waste Oil

Harris Silver | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Nyc, Gustave Eiffel, Mayor Bloomberg, Rudolf Diesel, Department of Sanitation, 1889 World's Fair., Green, Bio Fuel, Veggie Diesel, New York, Department of Health, Urbanism, New York News

The NYC Department of Sanitation will use 10 million gallons of fuel, at a cost of approximately 40 million dollars, to collect and dispose of 3.2 mil...

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A Simple Portrait of an Urban Place

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Photography, Sustainability, Placemaking, Community, Urban Planning, Green News, Culture, Cities, Third Places, Urban Policy, Livable Cities, Urbanism, Green News

From time to time, a single image captures the look and feel of city life, and successfully depicts an urban place where people come together. La...

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Mega-Architect's Unexpected Hobby

Jacob Slevin | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Drawing, Design, Architecture, City, Sketching, Painting, Watercolors, Urbanism, A. Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Louis Kahn, Arts News

More and more I've become fascinated with architects' alternative forms of creative expression, those lying outside the boundaries of their core work....

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Santa Monica: How the People's Republic Became a Business Mecca

Frank Gruber | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: William Fulton, Los Angeles Real Estate, Steve Lopez, L.A. Live, Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Urbanism, Redevelopment, The Reluctant Metropolis, La Real Estate, Los Angeles News

Why does L.A. need to subsidize offices downtown when Santa Monica has developers banging on the door?

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A Freeway Runs Through It: A Review of The Big Roads, by Earl Swift

Frank Gruber | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Earl Swift, Lewis Mumford, Urbanism, Interstate Highways, Thomas MacDonald, Interstate Highway System, Interstate 70, U.S. Interstate Highways, Books News

Earl Swift's new book, The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways, explains from the very beginning of the automotive age how expressways, turnpikes, interstates, and freeways came to be.

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Experiencing the Sonata of Urban Density (VIDEO)

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Urban Design, Green Living, Livable Cities, Pedestrian Cities, Pedestrians, Urbanism, Urban Density, Video, Green News

Take a creative break from today's active discussions about the benefits of urban density with a sonata that examines compact development examples from across the world.

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Confronting The Urban Mirror

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Architecture, Sustainability, Urban Design, Green Living, Livable Cities, Pedestrians, Pedestrian Cities, Cities, Urbanism, Green News

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Do Clothes Define Your Ethnicity?

Arielle Hixson | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Racism, Fashion, Clothes, Social Status, Ethnicity, Hipster Clothes Style, Hair-Beauty-Beauty-Hair, BV Life, Urbanism, Hip Hop Clothing, Black Voices News

Are clothes associated with a particular race? This controversial question may fuel a debate. Certain aspects of fashion tend to connect to particular ethnic groups in the United States.

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Discerning Successful Elements of People, Place and Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Architecture, Urban Design, Green Living, Urbanism, Sustainability, Pedestrians, Cities, Livable Cities, Pedestrian Cities, Liveable Cities, Culture News

Nothing is better for advocates of urbanism than simple immersion in the look and feel of a successful, authentic place. After a week of observation ...

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Rediscovering the Road to the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Photography, Green Urban Planning, Walking, Living News, Puglia, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Sustainability, Urban Design, Real Estate, Green Living, Pedestrians, Urbanism, Cities, Culture, Architecture, Green News

Those of us who write about cities should be students of history and experience, and with some humility listen to scholars and the legacy of urban development from from around the world.

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Retaining Sustainable Storefronts in the Urban Realm

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Small Business, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Real Estate, Cities, Urbanism, Culture, Photography, Business, Neighborhoods, Storefronts, Small Towns, Culture News

Vital storefronts are an indicator of urban success, while empty businesses are akin to the ruins of Pompeii.

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Why Did America Destroy Its Great Cities?

Frank Gruber | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: u.s. History, Urban Renewal, Urban History, Urbanism, American Cities, World War II, Demographics, Culture News

I don't suggest that there was a purposeful rationale, or even multiple rationales, to destroy the cities. The causes are more likely to have been social, cultural, economic and demographic.

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Uncovering Embedded Patterns of Place in the City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Real Estate, Urbanism, Cities, Culture, Photography, Living News, Green Living, Parks, Green, Pedestrians, Bicycling, Walking, Seattle, Green News

Amid the roads, sidewalks and places that you have visited before, there are often embedded patterns to uncover, read and reinterpret.

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Assuring Sustainable Third Places in the City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Small Business, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Real Estate, Business, Cities, Urbanism, Culture, Green News

Will the prime square footage occupied by Borders have similar 'third place' potential once reclaimed? Will replacement uses provide the equivalent fusion business purposes of books, coffee, lecture and song?

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Fusion Businesses and the Cities of Tomorrow

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Real Estate, Urbanism, Culture, Sustainability, Cities, Small Business, Green News

When a small branch of a local ice cream business opened within the laundromat up the street, it was evidence that today's land use regulations are becoming more in sync with changing urban reality.

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Pondering Artifacts of Displacement in the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: U.S. Cities, Photography, Green Urban Planning, Living News, World, Urban Policy, Neighborhoods, Urban Planning, Rome, Architecture, Green, Travel, Urban Design, Real Estate, Sidewalks, Green Urban Design, Urbanism, World News, Transportation, Culture, Streets, Density, Travel News, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Cities, Green News

If our cities must be dense to be competitive and sustainable, we must also look with care to the potential displacement of uses, institutions or traditions -- not to mention the artifacts we will leave behind.

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Exploring the Immediacy of the In-Between Place

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.27.2011

The archaeology of today's urban regions need not be excavation-based. One trick allows the illusion of memory through photographic tools.

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Urban Living

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Global Business Leadership, Urban Living, Shaking the Globe, Urbanism, Cities, Business News

Researchers identified May 23, 2007, as the first time in history that city dwellers outnumbered the world's rural population. Because cities are growing, companies locate in urban areas as an efficient way to reach talent and customers.

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