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Urban Design

Urbanists vs. Technocrats in Detroit

Mitch McEwen | Posted 04.02.2013 | Detroit
Mitch McEwen

Effectively, what we are seeing in Detroit are two different disciplines -- abstract finance on one hand and urban planning and design on the other -- telling two very different stories about the same city.

San Francisco's Chance for a Great Urban Transformation

Randy Howder | Posted 04.02.2013 | San Francisco
Randy Howder

If the residents of San Francisco were keeping their eyes on the prize of smart development, they would take a fresh look at SoMA and its technologically-savvy businesses as a chance to do something remarkable.

12 Horrible Plans For NYC That Never Happened

Flavorwire | Posted 01.08.2013 | New York

There have been some epically bad plans for New York City over the years, like drying up the rivers, building an underground city, and encasing Midtow...

A City's True Innovation: When Discovery Meets Intention

Wanona Satcher | Posted 02.26.2013 | Business
Wanona Satcher

Cities, the engines of creativity and the drivers of diversity are extremely multi-dimensional. Our politics strive to reflect the ever-changing patterns of urban form, socio-economic shifts, trends, and technology. Or do they?

Local Art In Local Venues: IndieWalls To Transform Art Discovery And Acquisition

Jacob Slevin | Posted 01.12.2013 | Arts
Jacob Slevin

Today's new crop of companies targets every market under the sun, but they often remain exclusively focused on creating an online space, using particu...

Experiments in Motion Encourages Architectural Fantasy, but Are You Ready for the Next Lowline?

Betsy Isaacson | Posted 11.21.2012 | New York
Betsy Isaacson

Experiments In Motion, showing at Essex Street Warehouse at the same time as Imagining the Lowline, is an array of architectural fantasies, a technical feast.

Utopia, Dystopia, Sitopia

Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York | Posted 09.19.2012 | Green
Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York

Outside the dwindling community of farmers, the truth is that people generally don't think about how their food gets to where they first cross paths with it.

Making People Skinnier Through Intelligent Design

2012-02-16-archdailyreal.jpg | Posted 07.14.2012 | Home

By Irina Vinnitskaya Click here for the original article at ArchDaily. Copyright NYC DDC In an effort to make New York City’s built environ...

Urban Design Serves as Tool of Repression in Bahrain

Mitch McEwen | Posted 08.15.2012 | Arts
Mitch McEwen

Arguably, part of being a contemporary architect is being aware of projects and competitions happening all over the world. Living in a city like New Y...

Jan Gehl: Cities for People (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 07.02.2012 | Arts
Crane.tv

Architect and urban designer Jan Gehl has dedicated a significant proportion of his career to making cities better places for people by studying public spaces and their impact on civic society.

LOOK: 'Urban Umbrella' Graces New York With Awesome New Scaffolding

Posted 12.08.2011 | New York

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the first model of "Urban Umbrella," a beautiful new design for the city's scaffolding structures, in Lower Manhattan on Wedn...

Design For The Developing World

ARTINFO | Posted 12.26.2011 | Arts
ARTINFO

The thought of architecture and design in the context of cities typically evokes images of chic monuments amidst grand metropolises; the Chrysler Buil...

New Times Square Design Aims To Separate Locals And Tourists

Posted 11.28.2011 | Arts

New York City's Times Square has lived through its fair share of incarnations, from the entertainment hub of the 1910s to the seedy den of vice in the...

A Call for Urban Doctors

Gordon Gill | Posted 11.28.2011 | Green
Gordon Gill

By looking at our assets holistically, we can create a fully integrated, intelligent approach to the greening of cities, one that combines carbon savings with an increased quality of life.

Experiencing the Sonata of Urban Density (VIDEO)

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 11.20.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

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.

City Shaping III: The Philadelphia Story

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 11.13.2011 | Arts
Charles A. Birnbaum

For more than three centuries, city planning, landscape architecture and a unique civic ambition that emphasizes horticulture as much as the pedestrian experience in its public spaces and streetscapes, have made Philadelphia a fascinating city.

Confronting The Urban Mirror

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.28.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

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Discerning Successful Elements of People, Place and Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.24.2011 | Home
Charles R. Wolfe

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 ...

Rediscovering the Road to the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.16.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

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.

Urban Design: A New Way of Practice in a Smaller World

Earl G. Jackson IV, AIA | Posted 09.20.2011 | Arts
Earl G. Jackson IV, AIA

2011-07-21-Screenshot20110721at10.09.50AM.jpgWe strive to exceed our clients' expectations and question how our projects might help shape community identity.

Pondering Artifacts of Displacement in the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.04.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

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.

Exploring the Immediacy of the In-Between Place

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.27.2011 | Arts
Charles R. Wolfe

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

Matt Sledge

How Houston Won A Climate Protection Award

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.24.2011 | Green

Houston won this year's U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Award. Houston -- the city that serves as headquarters for BP America, ConocoPhi...

Corners as the Baseline for Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.12.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

More so than public squares -- which require a conscious set-aside of assembled space -- corners naturally result from crossroads, the elemental feature of travel between places.

Creating the Urban Diary

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.07.2011 | Green
Charles R. Wolfe

Cities are hubs of human interaction, and the urban experience can be enhanced by authentic participation in the dynamics of a place and transitions to nearby venues.