Landscape design

Landscape design and urbanism

Reverse Effect: Jeanne Gang on the Chicago River

Water has become a preoccupation for the MacArthur Genius; her designs not only reflect water as a form, but speak to water systems on the whole as meshing with the built environment.

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 31 Jan 2012

Temporary bulb-out

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

'Better Block': upgrading streets quickly and cheaply

With borrowed materials, volunteer labor, and little money, a group embarks on temporary but stimulating urban improvements.

In Washington and Milwaukee, HOPE VI reduced crime

A study of redevelopment finds that HOPE VI can improve safety not only in the rebuilt projects but in areas beyond their boundaries.

What to do about parking

A new book, and the New York Times architecture critic, ponder how to make better use of some of the 500 million parking spaces in America.

Decoding Shanghai, gently

Gordon Price compiles a fascinating photos-and-words essay on the amazing contradictions of the booming Chinese city.

In Madrid, a freeway gives way to a park

The Spanish capital has buried more than six miles of freeway and created above it a dramatic new park along the Manzanares River.

Thinking about the New York grid

One exhibition plumbs the intriguing history of the Manhattan street grid. Another presents "innovative" proposals for its future.

New York plans an out-of-place boulevard

What’s with the amoeba-shaped green spaces in the boulevard to be built on Manhattan’s Far West Side?

CNU's Rainwater initiative

CNU’s new website for the Rainwater-in-Context Initiative works to institute rainwater management practices that strengthen and fully complement New Urbanism at all scales.

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 01 Dec 2011