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URBAN PLANNING The Overlooked Areas on This Year’s “Endangered Places” List Miami’s Little Santo Domingo and Chinatowns in both Seattle and Philadelphia appear on the...
URBAN PLANNING Austin Trades In Weird for Innovation A laid-back anomaly in a red state with the slogan “Keep Austin Weird,” the Texan capital has...
URBAN PLANNING New York’s Long-Delayed East Side Access Has Arrived Originally slated for completion in 2009, on a $2.1 billion budget that has since swelled, the...
URBAN PLANNING Frederick Law Olmsted’s Iconic Green Spaces Are Under Threat Though hundreds of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted are listed on the National Register of...
URBAN PLANNING Can Google Solve the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis? The tech giant aims to realize an arduous, decades-long proposal to develop nearly 15,000 housing...
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URBAN PLANNING Toronto’s Scrapped Smart City Reflects Distrust in Tech An ill-fated proposal by Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs to build a data-driven smart city in...
URBAN PLANNING Can a Group of Designers Solve London’s Urban Challenges? London mayor Sadiq Khan has appointed a diverse roster of architects as Design Advocates who will...
URBAN PLANNING A New Elevated Park Offers a Blueprint to Cooling Cities Snaking over rooftops in downtown Rotterdam, a new public park designed by MVRDV shows how dense...
URBAN PLANNING How Dead Malls Are Getting a New Lease on Life As the retail apocalypse continues to shutter America’s shopping malls apace, developers are...
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