New York
Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: Residents Oppose Tunnel
Residents of Battery Park oppose a West Street tunnel fearing that it will isolate the neighborhood.
Six Design Teams For WTC Site Selected
The six teams selected to design the redevelopment at the site of the World Trade Center include firms from Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Tokyo. Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, SOM, Santiago Calatrava, and others are on the list.
Seven Visionary Plans For Ground Zero
New York Metro presents seven architectural visionaries, and their plans for Ground Zero.
U.N. Building To Be Renovated
The United Nations may temporarily move its office while its signature Secretariat building -- designed by a team of international architects including Le Corbusier -- is renovated.
Harlem's Gold Rush: An Urban Planner's Dream?
Harlem's long-term gentrification is an urban planner's dream, but a residents are fighting back.
Panel To Pick From 300 Downtown Rebuilding Concepts
A panel of six will review applications for rebuilding Lower Manhattan received from 300 architecture and planning firms from all continents except Antarctica.
WTC Redevelopment Efforts Show How Little Has Changed
The proposed plans for the redevelopment of Ground Zero demonstrate how little has changed in the last year, writes Martin Filler.
A Sonic Memorial
NPR presents oral histories of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood.
9-11 Changes Building Practices, Skyscraper Design
Building practice is changing as developers, clients and residents demand safer, shorter structures.
Eight Principles For Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
The whole world is watching the process of rebuilding Ground Zero and downtown Manhattan.
The Future Of Ground Zero: PBS Special Airs Tonight
A PBS special on the efforts to decide the future of Ground Zero airs tonight.
Reimagining Ground Zero: Readers Respond
Readers respond to a plan for Lower Manhanttan developed by a team of accomplished architects. Includes a special interactive multimedia section.
Review Of Books About Ground Zero
The World Trade Centers will be more revered in death, than in life. Urban design writer John King reviews three books about these icons.
Team Of All-Star Architects Reimagines New York
Richard Meier, Steven Holl, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Guy Nordenson, Maya Lin, and others, dissatisfied with the official planning process to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center, form a design team to reimagine Lower Manhattan. [Includes in
A Timeline Of The TwinTowers
A timeline traces the history of the World Trade Center.
Lots Of Progress In Rebuilding Downtown
Just a week before the first anniversary of 9/11, New York City has made impressive progress in restoring vital infrastructure in Lower Manhattan.
A Daring Vision For New York
In the last three decades New York has seen few major public planning projects. To maintain its position as a global city, New York needs to "think big."
WTC Proposals Pour In
Newsday provides a slide show of some of the 2,000 designs from citizens, planners and architects have been received.
A New New York City
Hugo Lindgren writes that in rebuilding the site of the former World Trade Center we have to "lower our expectations."
From Aging Town To 'Mini-SoHo'
Blight turns old industrial properties into just the right places for visual artists to gather and ignite energy.
Pagination
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Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
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