Brent Toderian, who gave substance to Vancouver’s EcoDensity Initiative, is out as planning director of the Canadian city.
A stunning exhibition reveals what was destroyed by New York’s rigid street grid—and what’s been gained.
Bristol Rising in Connecticut is one of the most comprehensive small city redevelopment plans in the US.
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.
The normal course of human development is for successful cities to continue to mature incrementally over time.
Rural towns campaign to keep their tiny post offices operating in the face of the Postal Service's daunting deficits.
One exhibition plumbs the intriguing history of the Manhattan street grid. Another presents "innovative" proposals for its future.
Edited by Chris Wilson and Stefanos PolyzoidesPhotographs by Miguel GandertTrinity University Press, 2011, 338 pp. $45 hardcover
Riley, known for his devotion to urban design, first won the office in 1975 and now will have four more years—perhaps his finale.
