The design of District West is predicated on the idea of a central cultural core, enlivened by the river flowing through it, that stitches the surrounding urban fabric together. Drawing from the few ...

Time is a factor in urban design. Projects sometimes take decades to materialize. Some never make it. This monograph features three decades of urban design projects at Johnson Fain varying in type and ...

The final design studio provides opportunities for advanced architectural and urban research by graduate Urban Design students and a deepening of the prior speculative urban design investigations. It ...

You may think the only changes to cities have been negative ones, and yes, urban areas have certainly seen increased traffic and heightened housing problems, but plenty of places have also debuted new ...

The Europan 16 topic focuses on living cities as a new paradigm, in which new kinds of synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association will present its 2009 Comprehensive Planning Award to "The Olmsted City -- The Buffalo Olmsted Park System: Plan for the 21st ...

Security has been an integral part of metropolitan areas for millennia. From the ancient walls that surrounded Marrakesh and Munich to the barriers erected during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland, ...