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360-degree Architectural 'Revolution'
Each 300,000-dollar apartment occupying an entire floor in this unusual 11-storey apartment bulding can turn independently offering 360-degree views.
'Green' Holiday Gifts
From wearable solar radios to clothes made of organic cotton, 'green' gifts are becoming popular.
Too Hip For The Room
10 Chicago architects share their visions for Chicago's future.
Hyperurbanism?
When urbocentrism is combined with technological and economic power, it takes on the character of an unstoppable force.
Changing The Culture Of 'No.'
How traditional planning bureaucracies can reinvent themselves into customer service driven agencies that embrace continuous improvement.
Declaring War To Become A City
Must a suburb 'declare war' to evolve into a city? San Jose, CA, fights back after losing a fast-growing corporation.
Cleveland CDC Abandons Role As Developer Of Last Resort
Is Ohio City Cleveland's first neighborhood to turn the corner, or just to turn its back on affordable housing?
Denver's Turnaround City
How did "Colorado's most reluctant city" become metro Denver's most progressive center of smart planning and urban design?
New Beginnings And An End
Subway expansion is the first beyond the system's original boundaries.
How Birthrates Impact Demographics
An obscure demographic factor -- birthrates -- is strongly correlated with partisan splits in both the 2000 and 2004 elections.
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Psychogeographical Markup Language
This time I didn't make it up. From the strange, inventive, and apparently European Web site socialfiction.org comes <a href="http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/PML.html">Psychogeographical Markup Language</a>, a way to tag urban environments with metadata that's not cartographic but emotional. They say, "PML incorporates work done in fields like annotated space, geo-tagging, mental mapping, GIS & collaborative mapping but is different in that it aims at the invisible & the absurd."<br /> <br /> As socialfiction's <a href="http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/psychogeogram.html">explanation</a>
University Makes Downtown Commitment
New Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor commits to major investment plan in the Rust Belt City's center.
Building Materials Of The Future
Urban Land asks eight architectural firms to discuss building materials and technologies the industry can expect to see more of in the future.
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Bridging Form and Function
David Sucher argues that France's spectacular new bridge is not just a feat of engineering -- <a href="http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2004/12/quite_the_contr.html">it's architecture</a>.<br /> <br /> <blockquote>"...I'd suggest that it qualifies as architecture, maybe even top-notch architecture..."</blockquote><br /> <br /> Brian Micklethwait wonders about the <a href="http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture/001740.shtml">reason</a> for building the bridge: <br /> <br /> <blockquote>"Economically it looks crazy to me. A few more curves on the road and they could surely have saved themselves billions."</blockquote>
Big Dig's Broken Promises
State officials got an earful at a hearing held yesterday in Boston regarding their proposal to reevaluate the three remaining transit projects promised as mitigation for the reconstruction of the Central Artery.
Plan A City Like A Pharaoh
'Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile' is a new SimCity-like computer game -- set in ancient Egypt.
Airport-Driven Urban Development
The area around the Baltimore-Washington International Airport attracts new growth.
The Pull Of Ethnic Centers
Los Angeles Koreatown, once a less-than desirable neighborhood, has become a destination for wealthy tourists and suburbanites.
Dogs And Tots Want Chicago's Emerald Necklace
Will ten acres of Olmstead's green space become a tot lot and dog run?
State Of The Blog In Planning
Weblogs are helping the World Wide Web realize its potential, writes Planetizen editor Abhijeet Chavan.
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Jessamine County Fiscal Court
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Harvard GSD Executive Education
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NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
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.
