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Urban Planning Lessons from the D.C. Region
From left to right: Susan S. Szenasy, Metropolis director of design innovation; Barbara Mullenex, managing principal, Perkins Eastman; Matt Ginivan, senior vice president of real estate development,...
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Year in Review 2018: Whose Resilient Future?
Resilient Equity Hubs— a part of the author’s All Bay Collective “Estuary Commons” proposal for San Leandro Bay in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge—form alliances across political...
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Bjarke Ingels Group Makes Its Own Proposal for Brooklyn’s Looming BQE Repairs
Aerial view of BIG’s Brooklyn-Queens Park (BQP) proposal Courtesy BIG The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), completed in 1954, is a testament to postwar American ingenuity. Where it passes Brooklyn...
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A Public Park in Montreal Aims to Right the Wrongs of Past Development Schemes
Parc Bonaventure forms a new communal space in Montreal, replacing an elevated highway that disjointed the downtown area and dominated the experience of entering the city. Automobile traffic is...
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In Detroit, Empty Lots Become Parks, Helping to Rebuild Lost Social Equity
In Fitzgerald, a Detroit neighborhood that has suffered blight and vacancy in recent years, the new Ella Fitzgerald Park designed by landscape architecture firm Spackman Mossop Michaels forms a...
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Design Cities 2019: Tirana, Albania
Designed by 51N4E with the artist Anri Sala and landscape design firm Plant en Houtgoed, Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, is part of a broader national effort of decommunization. The square,...
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Urban Renewal, A Blight on Other American Cities, Sparked an Architectural...
Aerial composite of Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill, including the proposed Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Skidmore Owings & Merrill), and Washington Plaza Apartments (I. M. Pei & Associates), from an...
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In Small Town Appalachia, Researchers Find an “Evolution Towards Resilience”
Courtesy Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes In the contemporary neoliberal city, rivers have become magnets for intensive development, a manifestation of the back-to-the-city movement. Familiar...
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Welcome to the Agrihood
In the age of COVID‐19 and society’s increased focus on health and wellness, there is a growing interest in agrihoods, planned communities that integrate agriculture into a residential neighborhood....
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Ford Unveils Details of its Plans for Detroit’s Corktown
Courtesy Of Practice For Architecture And Urbanism Two years ago, when Ford announced its intention to create the Michigan Central mobility innovation district, it created waves because the site...
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