Images

This page displays images from throughout New Urban Network. Search by title, description, and/or topic.

Street plan

The City of New Haven's street plan for Downtown Crossing, including alterations made to accommodate bicyclists.

Top planner

Amanda Burden, director of New York City's Planning Department for the past 10 years, has brought a detail-oriented approach to the job.

Photo: Emily Berl/The New York...

CicLAvia in Los Angeles

Someof the nearly 100,000 bicyclists who took to the streets during Los Angeles' fourth annual CicLAvia event. Ten miles of the city's streets were closed to car traffic.

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Baldwin Park

A view of the town center. Photo by Robert Steuteville

Glenwood Park

Public space with mixed-use buildings

Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream

This cover story hit the newstands in 1995 — an important media moment for New Urbanism.

All lined up

The 33 towers of the Pruitt and Igoe public housing projects in St. Louis, and a four-story public school, occupy the center of this photograph, shot sometime between 1963 and...

Pruitt-Igoe in 1968

Pruitt-Igoe as it looked from the air in March 1968

Source: US Geological Service via Wikipedia Commons

The social vision

Social space in a Pruitt-Igoe corridor as envisioned by the architects

Source: Wikipedia Commons, from Creating Defensible Space, by Oscar Newman

The end of Pruitt-Igoe

Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe in one of a series of implosions carried out from 1972 to 1976.

Photo: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, courtesy of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

A newer vision

New Faubourg Lafitte, a complex of several hundred low-income apartments and affordable for-sale houses on a New Orleans site previously occupied by a troubled public housing...

Grant Memorial scene

Part of the powerful sculpture created by Henry Merwin Shrady for the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington. CLICK TO ENLARGE IMAGE.

Photo: Ulysses S. Grant Memorial...