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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...
Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My husband and I are clos...
It is a brave urban planner who will advocate relocation, for few displaced individuals take kindly to being uprooted, even if they know they will likely face further crippling blows from nature if they fail to move to a more secure address.
Why wait for the zombie apocalypse? One man wants customers to experience the terror now. With soaring budget deficits and population on the declin...
This right is not absolute; it does not obligate the government to provide all citizens overnight with safe drinking water. But giving access to water a legal expression does commit the authorities to do everything in their power, within reason, to extend this right as a matter of urgency.
Back when Mitt Romney was campaigning in Michigan, he had this weird phrase about his one-time home state that he kept robotically repeating: "The tre...
By Vanessa Quirk Click here for original article. Copyright Flickr User CC tango_28 Poverty and violence, boarded windows and weedy lawns...
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.
Who'd have thought that voting to add trash cans on the street or renovate public housing could be a democratic milestone?
Hudson Yards. Image courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox. The Huffington Post Arts page recently celebrated Design Thursdays with a special presentation...
Modernism, despite the popularity of Mad Men and shelter magazines like Dwell, is under assault. Iconic works of architecture and landscape architecture from have a particularly high mortality rate.
Do you ever dream of an entire city filled with Swedish meatballs and do-it-yourself furniture? That dream could soon be a reality. IKEA, the Swed...
Jane Jacobs changed the way we look and think about cities. No better way exists to understand Jane than to get out and walk, observe, ponder and think or talk about what is seen. That is the idea behind Jane Jacobs Walks.
When we think of amusement parks the first things that come to mind are long lines and dripping ice cream, but there was a time when these places pres...
Every day -- from Rio to New York to Mumbai -- decisions are made around transportation, energy, public space, housing, and law. Rather than leaving these decisions in the hands of others, theCity2.org provides a platform so we can all become part of the solution.
In the new global economy, metropolitan regions are the new centers of commerce. Now more than ever, cities and counties within regions must work to...
By Claire Nelson This article originally appeared in Model D. Read more here. Nothing gets me hotter than listening to policy wonks talk about u...
RICHMOND, Va. -- An amendment to Virginia's Constitution that would make it harder for governments to take private land has cleared the Virginia Senat...
For most building types, adaptive reuse of older buildings produces measureable -- and sometimes impressive -- green benefits.
How does where we live impact our health? It's a big and complex question, but Richard Jackson, MD, MPH is leading the way towards answers -- and interventions.
The images of its destruction are some of the most iconic in all of modern architecture. Less than 20 years after they went up, the towers of the Prui...
With the folly of relying on growth in the finance sector to compensate for losses in manufacturing now brought into focus by the financial crisis, the building blocks for economic recovery and job growth are more elusive than ever.
This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung For nearly four years, Cassandra Martin lived in West Oakland, a few blo...
I submit this list of 10 notable developments in the world of landscape architecture to reflect on including new designs, significant transformations and influential publications.
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...
