Author's note: My first visit to the Pantheon was fifty years ago. In the decades since, I have returned many times, and with each visit this extraordinary work of architecture and urbanism continues to reveal something new. I have drawn and studied...
The requirement to be efficient and economical, and to minimize financial risk, has contributed to the character of the Charter Award Grand Prize-winning town of Seabrook.
A transformative transportation technology, eVTOLs, is coming soon, which is the reason behind The Village Project.
Cities should be designed around what is most permanent, especially streets, where the stakes of getting them right are highest.
The threat is not modern architecture. It is losing fine-grained urban structure while preserving enough historic vocabulary to make the loss look compatible.
If not for COVID, it would have been the 20th annual Porchfest in Ithaca. The event offers lessons for urbanism.
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New urbanist design firm Correa Valle Valle of
New urbanist design firm Correa Valle Valle of Coral Gables, Florida, has won two smart growth awards for its charrette and plan for a redevelopment...
Habersham’s town center is beginning to take
Habersham’s town center is beginning to take shape with the completion of its first live/work building and groundbreakings for four more units...
Visual Reference Publications published Public Transportation: On the
Visual Reference Publications published Public Transportation: On the Move, a book on products and design of mass transit systems. The 230-page...
$120 billion transportation package gets mixed reaction
Advocates of public transit expressed mixed opinions about Congress's approval of a two-year bill containing $120 billion for transportation. The...
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