A stunning exhibition reveals what was destroyed by New York’s rigid street grid—and what’s been gained.
The New York Times health columnist focuses on how deficient community designs can undermine people's well-being.
The perception of risk makes people more alert, more accommodating, and more cautious. It's less expensive, too.
This Better Block temporary arrangement of potted plants in South Dallas helped alert people to the benefits of narrowing the pavement and making the roadways more accommodating to pedestrians.
Source: The Better Block
With borrowed materials, volunteer labor, and little money, a group embarks on temporary but stimulating urban improvements.
A study of redevelopment finds that HOPE VI can improve safety not only in the rebuilt projects but in areas beyond their boundaries.
Rural towns campaign to keep their tiny post offices operating in the face of the Postal Service's daunting deficits.
Gordon Price compiles a fascinating photos-and-words essay on the amazing contradictions of the booming Chinese city.
The Spanish capital has buried more than six miles of freeway and created above it a dramatic new park along the Manzanares River.
One exhibition plumbs the intriguing history of the Manhattan street grid. Another presents "innovative" proposals for its future.
