Walk, Don't Drive, to the Real Estate Recovery
Christopher Leinberger, writing for The New Republic, says the Times is a little late to discover this fact: Publication Date: Tue, 04/26/2011
View ArticleThe New Yorker's Dizzy Love of the Suburbs
Lehmann expressed his unabiding love of his home in Pelham, New York, and generalizes his love as an expression of all American's everlasting affection for suburban life. Alan Berube at The New...
View Article"Environmental Architecture" at its Finest
"To ensure that Halperin's excellent landscape and site plan be respected in perpetuity, Boeke and his collaborators created The Sea Ranch Corporation, which maintains a stringent set of landscaping...
View ArticleIs Vienna the Quintessential Smart City?
European cities are often turned to as models for their innovative and inspiring efforts to create more sustainable, livable, and efficient cities.Publication Date: Thu, 05/03/2012
View ArticleThe Biggest Challenge Facing the Century of the City
The resounding failure of mid-century experiments by Western architects to humanely house fast-growing urban populations in buildings based on the tower-in-the-park concept demonstrated that architects...
View ArticleSmall Screens Make for Better Cities
The growth of online shopping, or in the case of Staples, the obsolescence of whole product lines, are reducing the amount of items stores need to stock. And, as DePillis explains, "[t]he resulting...
View ArticleLack of Diversity Plagues Jacobs's Vision of Urban Change
"Jacobs, whose The Death and Life of Great American Cities serves as the bible for city-lovers and modern planners, believed that blighted neighborhoods would regenerate organically if left to their...
View ArticleBrad Pitt Struggles to Make It Right in New Orleans
The 90 homes completed by Pitt's Make It Right foundation at a cost of $45 million were certainly built with the best of intentions, but their siting, cost, and drain on city finances have many...
View ArticleHow Middle-Class Anti-Gentrifiers Obscure San Francisco's True Problems
In San Francisco, "the debate [over gentrification] is dominated by fierce new champions of the anti-gentrification cause who aren't concerned so much about the truly poor being forced from—or tempted...
View ArticleReputation Renewal: Reconsidering America's Master Builders
"Until recently, the imperious midcentury planners were invariably cast as bullies, who steamrolled heroic community types and flattened living neighborhoods," writes Inga Saffron.Publication Date:...
View ArticlePolluting 'Platinum' Tower Pierces LEED Balloon
"According to data released by New York City last fall, the Bank of America Tower produces more greenhouse gases and uses more energy per square foot than any comparably sized office building in...
View ArticleThe Cost of 'Cool'
"Lately, 'new Berlin' has become shorthand for an under-visited European city that is cheap, fun, and up-and-coming," writes Rogers.Publication Date: Fri, 09/12/2014
View ArticleDemographic Changes Mean a New Suburban American Dream
The passage describes the ongoing, drastic demographic overhaul of suburbs. A few excerpts:Publication Date: Mon, 11/24/2014
View ArticleParks—or Playgrounds for Billionaires?
Inga Saffron, writing for The New Republic, provides a long commentary on the emergence of private interests as the funding and operations arms for an opulent new era of parks, as most obviously...
View ArticleCarrots and Sticks: Making Driving Alone the Worst Option
Writing for The New Republic, Emily Badger has done the mental math, and at least for her taking mass transit makes more sense than driving to work in Washington, D.C. It's more convenient and less...
View ArticleAmerica's Infrastructural Reckoning
Every day, politicians apply the term "crumbling" to American infrastructure. While few would deny the importance of good civil engineering to our daily lives, Petroski asks why infrastructure is...
View ArticleThe New Yorker's Dizzy Love of the Suburbs
Lehmann expressed his unabiding love of his home in Pelham, New York, and generalizes his love as an expression of all American's everlasting affection for suburban life.Alan Berube at The New Republic...
View Article"Environmental Architecture" at its Finest
"To ensure that Halperin's excellent landscape and site plan be respected in perpetuity, Boeke and his collaborators created The Sea Ranch Corporation, which maintains a stringent set of landscaping...
View ArticleIs Vienna the Quintessential Smart City?
European cities are often turned to as models for their innovative and inspiring efforts to create more sustainable, livable, and efficient cities.Publication Date: Thu, 05/03/2012
View ArticleThe Biggest Challenge Facing the Century of the City
The resounding failure of mid-century experiments by Western architects to humanely house fast-growing urban populations in buildings based on the tower-in-the-park concept demonstrated that architects...
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