Urbanism Archives - The Architect’s Newspaper https://www.archpaper.com/category/subject/urbanism/ The most authoritative voice on architecture and design in the United States. Thu, 23 May 2024 15:27:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects asks “what a new generation of American socialists might learn” from New York and Washington, D.C. https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/owen-hatherley-walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects/ Thu, 23 May 2024 15:27:45 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375967 Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley | Repeater Books | $16.95 Describing oneself as a flâneur is a good way

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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils regional plan to build a “massive free trade zone” with rail service to NEOM https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/benjamin-netanyahu-unveils-regional-plan-free-trade-zone-rail-service-neom/ Tue, 21 May 2024 15:02:16 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376168 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released a PowerPoint that gives a glimpse into what the Likud Party has in mind for Gaza’s future, and the Levant region at

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City Limits sees urban interstate development through the eyes of community organizers https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/city-limits-sees-urban-interstate-development-through-the-eyes-of-community-organizers/ Mon, 20 May 2024 21:02:44 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376428 City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and The Future of America’s Highways by Megan Kimble | Penguin Random House | $30  It was pouring rain the day I moved to Chicago, finishing

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Benediktas Gylys’s The Portal temporarily closes in New York and Dublin due to “inappropriate behavior” https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/the-portal-temporarily-closes-inappropriate-behavior/ Wed, 15 May 2024 15:15:46 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=376140 Since The Portal opened on May 8 outside New York’s Flatiron Building and in Dublin, the majority of visitors have been respectful. And it did what the Lithuanian artist and

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What can architects learn from skateboarding? Both create communities by navigating form and function https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/what-can-architects-learn-from-skateboarding-both-create-communities-by-navigating-form-and-function/ Thu, 09 May 2024 16:30:48 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375892 As a community-driven architect, I have always sought to create spaces that change people first, and this eventually changes whole cities. My journey to the field of architecture wasn’t typical.

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A new exhibition at the Kengo Kuma & Associates–designed V&A Museum in Dundee, Scotland, explores how photography has shaped cities https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/exhibition-va-museum-dundee-scotland-photography-shaped-city/ Wed, 01 May 2024 16:52:33 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375294 Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World Victoria & Albert Museum Dundee Through October 20 Most of us know the standard tourist factoids of the Eiffel Tower: It was

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Phase Two of The Underline, led by GSLA Design, opens to the public in Miami https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/phase-two-the-underline-opens-miami/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:17:01 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375254 The concept of a linear park in an urban setting is nothing new: New York’s got the High Line, Atlanta’s got the BeltLine, and now, Miami has The Underline. Phase

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Lake|Flato and HR&A release master plan for Panther Island in Fort Worth, Texas https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/lakeflato-hra-release-master-plan-panther-island/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:32:03 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=375264 In Texas, just beyond Fort Worth’s city center lies a 450-acre site called Panther Island. The landmass is surrounded by Panther Lake and Trinity River. It’s home to a few

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NYCHA selects MDG, Essence, and Wavecrest Management to renovate multiple Lower East Side buildings under PACT/RAD https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/nycha-mdg-essence-wavecrest-management-lower-east-side-buildings/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:36:25 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=374420 In New York’s Lower East Side, multiple NYCHA towers will be renovated by MDG Design + Construction, Essence Development, and Wavecrest Management. The affected buildings are Meltzer Tower, Rafael Hernandez

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Ledger—a collaborative effort by Marlon Blackwell, Callaghan Horiuchi, and Michel Rojkind—is so much more than a bikeable building https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/ledger-marlon-blackwell-callaghan-horiuchi-michel-rojkind-bikeable-building/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:12:41 +0000 https://www.archpaper.com/?p=374762 In Bentonville, Arkansas, a biker pedals up ­the eastern facade of an office building. ­­Ledger, was a collaborative effort between local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects, Callaghan Horiuchi, and Mexico City–based

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