Architecture
6 WTC Plans Are Similar
The six redevelopment plans for the World Trade Center site share similarities but none include housing.
Liquid Architecture: A Building Made Of Water
The Blur Building in Switzerland, designed by MacArthur "Genius" award-winners, is built using water.
New Urbanism Project Gets Mixed Reviews
Professionals attending the Congress of New Urbanism's 10th annual convention in Miami toured Mizner Park, promoted as a successful application of New Urbaninsm ideas.
Debate Rages Over America's Largest Mall
Readers debate a recent Atlantic Monthly article on The Mall of America. Is the scale of development troubling?
Security Measures Don't Have To Be Ugly
National Capital Planning Commission task force has proposed a $800 million plan to provide better-looking security for monuments in the nation's capital.
Revitalization And They Don't Even Know It
Commercial project in the 'gateway' to the upscale Hamptons gets new urban features through half dozen hearings and 12 site plan revisions.
New Urbanism Arrives In Indianapolis
Feeling that suburban growth was too impersonal, residents of Indianapolis are embracing New Urbanist developments.
Metro Stations Create Urban Villages
In Arlington,Virginia, urban villages grow near metro stations.
Urban Design And Security Plan
A draft of the much-anticipated Urban Design and Security plan outlines planning techniques to protect national landmarks and government buildings from terror.
Starter Castles In South Florida
The names include McMansions, monster homes, scrape-offs and bash-n-builds. Preservations want them to go away.
New York Governor Limits Ground Zero Options
Gov. Pataki's statement, "We will never build where the towers stood," limits rebuilding options at the site of the World Trade Center.
Planned Communities: Utopian Experiments
Auroville and New Oroville pursue radically different approaches to building utopian planned communities.
City Limits Height of Beach Buildings
City of Fort Lauderdale's Commissioners voted to reduce the height of future construction.
Tree Canopy Study Can Be Planning Factor
Information gathered by CITYgreen software, about tree-covered areas, can help plans aimed to improve cityscape.
A Walk On The Wild Side
Planum, the European online planning journal, offers a compendium of links to walks in postmodern, postindustrial urban landscapes.
Testing Concord's Walkability
Dan Burden audits the walkability of a Concord neighborhood, and offers a vision for a more livable city.
WTC Footprints To Be Memorialized
In October, 2001 several prominent planners suggested that the footprints of the Twin Towers be preserved. The rest of the nation is catching up.
Deconstructing The World Trade Center
An Atlantic Monthly writer was the only journalist to have unrestricted access to the clean-up effort, and details the story.
Monster Homes In Maryland Suburbs
The master bedroom suite in this "monster home" is larger than many New York City apartments.
New Urbanist Project In Kansas City Halted
Court orders temporary halt to New Urbanism-influenced development in Kansas City, North, due to environmental concerns.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
