urban planning

Parks, Art Walks, and Neighborhoods Named as Finalists in New Los Angeles Awards Show

From a freeway-capped park in Hollywood to a colony on Mars, the Los Angeles Real Creativity Awards honor the city's best ideas in design, business and culture.READ»

Dutch Break Ground on Fruit Cake–Looking Building, Just in Time for Holidays

The walls of arching market hall will double as apartment buildings.READ»

Rotterdam's Fantastic Plan to Make Storm Water Beautiful

The city is planning 25 parks that will recycle rainwater while serving as urban playgrounds.READ»

MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ»

Gensler Wins Award for Greenhouse/Hydrogen Generating Bridge

The architecture firm proposes a solar-powered greenhouse that would rest on abandoned train tracks in Chicago.READ»

Design Away Crime: Medellín's Doing It With Public Works

The former mayor of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, talks about how public-works projects can fight crime and bring safety to blighted neighborhoods.READ»

Infographic of the Day: How Do You Dig a Subway Tunnel, Anyway?

"The Washington Post" illustrates a massively complex, 2,400-foot subway tunnel being dug in Northern Virginia. Here's how they do it, dudes.READ»

Hacks and the City

An exhibition opening this weekend in Chicago highlights 99 ways that urban activists have hacked crosswalks, medians, and overlooked urban nooks.READ»

Infographic of the Day: Rethinking Cities with GOOD and IBM

GOOD magazine and IBM shine a joint spotlight on eight cities around the world that have changed their urban landscape with the help of novel technologies.READ»

Former Nigerian Capital Gets Eco-City

A proposed energy-efficient satellite village uses the lagoon for cooling in Lagos, Africa's second largest city. READ»

Fish in the East River Say: "Hey Wht R U Up 2?"

This weekend at the Conflux festival, artist and technologist Natalie Jeremijenko will hold a workshop showing off a fish monitoring system that issues text-message status reports.READ»

Beyond the High Line: Five Bridges You'll Want to Stroll Across

Five upcoming projects that will remake bridges into houses, shops, and parks.READ»

Public Toilets That Aren't Crappy

British architects refresh the disgraceful state of public toilets.READ»

How Demographics Can Play Out in Fridge Design

A striking refrigerator concept actually tells a story about changes in the way we live.READ»

Architectural Hottie Coming to World's Sexiest Beach

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins a high-profile competition to design a museum on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach.READ»

Here's How We Can Reverse Suburban Blight

A competition to reinvent the suburbs announces 20 finalist entries.READ»

Move Over, High Line: Hudson River's Pier 57 Looks Amazing

Officials announce a winning proposal to create a cultural center on Pier 57, adjacent to the city's newest jewel.READ»

How Not to Market a Big Public Works Project

Starchitect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled a new bridge for Calgary--and the project's naysayers are screaming bloody murder.READ»

A Manmade Mountain, Covered in Apartments

BIG architects recently completed a housing complex billed as "beacon for architectural possibility" and a "feat of residential engineering."READ»

Melbourne's Nutty Theater Complex Racks up Awards

An instantly recognizable theater complex in Melbourne wins a citation as the state's best new building.READ»

MacroSea Turns Dumpster Diving Into Family Fun

MacroSea, a team of urban planning visionaries, has been staging "guerilla pool parties" inside retrofitted dumpsters.READ»

How to Revive an Ailing City Center: Ban Cars, Build Public Spaces

The Dutch have a way with urban planning, as the new Roosendaal Pavilion proves.READ»

A Second Act for Second Life, as an Urban Planning Tool

Second Life's passe right? Maybe not. Two MacArthur-grant geniuses use it to help average citizens design their own communities.READ»

Visiting the High Line: An Amazing New Park Opens in Manhattan

The High Line, built upon an abandoned stretch of elevated railway, opens tomorrow. Here's what it looks like.READ»

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15 British Design Stars Create Concepts for a Better London

London's Design Museum just opened a new exhibition, Super Contemporary, which tasked 15 British design stars--including David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, Sam Hecht, and Tom Dixon to invent pieces that would improve upon life in the ...READ»