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It’s 2026: Time for a Comprehensive Plan for New York City
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (838+ words) To accomplish this, perhaps he could start with a comprehensive plan. William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man and founder of Project for Public Spaces, spent 15 months writing the 90,000-word Critical Issues volume.Donald H. Elliott served as chair of the…...
Episode 4: Our Buildings, Our Selves, With Guests Gerhard W. Mayer and Lindsay Stirman
3+ week, 2+ day ago (229+ words) By Duo Dickinson, Martin C. Pedersen Welcome to the fourth episode of Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and Bridgeport public radio station WPKN." Lindsay Sturman,…...
The Atlanta We Inherit: History, Architecture, and the Fight for Public Space
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) Portman's strikingly futuristic designs revitalized parts of Atlanta during a period of urban decline. But they also reinforced a fundamental divide between private and public space, prioritizing the needs of tourists and commuters over local residents. What once appeared as…...
Some of a Good Thing: The Legacy of Frank Gehry
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (200+ words) And despite his works" global presence, he is also of a place, Los Angeles, which is why he has left such a big void there. Outwardly, it seems like only Los Angeles, with its identity driven by images and stars,…...
Learning to Reject the Transactional City
1+ week, 2+ day ago (299+ words) Here's my story: I decided to study city planning at MIT because I liked cities, not because I wanted to fix them, as many of my cohort did. Nor did I have strong opinions about cities or a clear understanding of…...
Detty December: How Lagos’ Urban Street Party Is Fueling an Economic Boom
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (141+ words) By Mathias Agbo, Jr., Verse Shom The Sociocultural Engine Driving Economic Value Prospects: Toward a Sustainable Urban Powerhouse Investing in Lagos" Festival Future Featured image via The Guardian. Mathias Agbo, Jr. is Sustainability and Adaptation researcher and built environment designer....
As Disney Hall Showed, Frank Gehry’s Los Angeles Was Urban, but Not Urbanist
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (404+ words) To be honest, I never really believed that the Walt Disney Concert Hall would ever actually get built. It was the most important major architectural icon in Los Angeles designed by starchitect Frank Gehry, who died earlier this month." Good…...
Why Hollywood and the Housing Industry Need Each Other
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (769+ words) For the past century or so, two industries have both fueled Los Angeles's local economy and defined its civic image: Hollywood and real estate. Now that both are faltering, I can't help but consider some of their perhaps surprising commonalities'and…...
The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (167+ words) By Mark Alan Hewitt From 1955 to 1985, American universities built architectural programs into their curricula at a rate not seen before or since. The U.S. was leading the world in erecting buildings in cities and creating suburbs virtually everywhere. A few of…...
Layers of the Past: What Stories Our Buildings Tell Us
2+ week, 4+ day ago (253+ words) Our firm manifested that ideal two decades ago at Historic Front Street, in Manhattan's South Street Seaport historic district. In 2003, 11 empty warehouses'dating to the 18th and early 19th centuries'were on the verge of collapse. Herman Melville set the opening scenes of Moby-Dick…...