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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Let There Be…Real Estate? How Developers and Churches Are Joining Forces in...
Developer Thornsett Group worked with London’s Bethnal Green Mission Church to realize fourteen condominiums and a new church, all located within the same building (seen here). Courtesy Jack Hobhouse...
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Lessons on Participatory Design from San Francisco
Perkin Eastman’s design for the Harvey Milk Plaza Courtesy Perkins Eastman Developed in Scandinavia in the 1970s to give factory workers a voice in improving their working conditions and processes,...
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Landscape May Be Architects’ Best Tool for Tackling Inequality
The Chicago Riverwalk, designed in part by Ross Barney Architects (RBA). Courtesy Kate JoyceOften described as the most American of American cities, Chicago has developed a particularly virulent strain...
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The Miller Hull Partnership Proposes Turning a Defunct Seattle Tunnel Into a...
The Miller Hull Partnership has proposed removing the roof of Seattle’s defunct Battery Street Tunnel, converting it into a landscaped ravine. The proposal would see the tunnel’s structural beams...
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In New York City, a Bold Urban Plan Seeks to Revitalize Miles of Shoreline
Flushing Bay is located near Citi Field and the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, meaning simple wayfinding and lighting improvements could bring thousands of new visitors to the bay’s...
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The New Development That Promises to Transform Boston’s Waterfront
OMA is designing 88 Seaport, one of the many new towers planned for the Boston Seaport development. 88 Seaport will include just over 430,000 square feet of office and 60,000 square feet of retail....
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New Talent 2018: Nonprofit LA-Más Is Revitalizing Los Angeles’s Overlooked...
LA-Más is directed by Elizabeth Timme, left, who helms the organization’s design, and Helen Leung, right, who leads its policy and community-facing functions. Courtesy Brian GuidoOur annual New Talent...
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Smart Cities Conference Raises Concerns About Those Left Behind by Technology
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at Smart Cities New York, which ran from May 8 – 10 in New York City. Courtesy Smart Cities New YorkChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn’t known for pulling punches, and...
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This Book Imagines How Cities Let Humanity Survive Cataclysmic Climate Change
In the world imagined by 2100: A Dystopian Utopia, polar regions have become more habitable and host megacities like this one in Troll, Antarctica. Courtesy UR (Urban Research), the publishing imprint...
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Secret Cities: Upcoming Exhibition Will Explore the Architecture and Planning...
SOM’s wartime efforts in Oak Ridge extended into postwar redevelopment with permanent housing. Seen here: Postwar housing by SOM, Oak Ridge, 1948. SOM © Torkel Korling, compliments of Skidmore, Owings...
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