What's Wrong with the "Green" Design Revolution
James Dyson has a few ideas about the relationship between engineering and efficiency, and rightly so – over the past twenty years, his company has garnered international attention for a small...
View ArticleIs There a Place for Design and Beauty in Planning Documents?
Publication Date: Tue, 10/16/2012
View ArticleDoes it Make a Difference if a Planning Program is in a Policy, Design, or...
For those wanting to enter graduate school in 2013, applications will soon be due. Students investigating options often ask if it makes a difference where the planning school is located—in a design...
View ArticlePlanning Education: Striking a Better Balance
An Incomplete EducationTags: Design, APA, Physical Planning, AICP, Planning Accreditation Board
View ArticleLandscape Architects Step Into Vacuum Left by Planners and Architects
"In recent years, landscape architects have seen their profile rise," explains Brake.Publication Date: Tue, 12/04/2012
View ArticleRe-Connecting Housing and Health for a Better Future
Until the early 1900s, asserts Burton, the relationship between housing and health was seen as inextricably linked.Publication Date: Thu, 12/06/2012
View ArticleWho Can Fill L.A.'s Design Leadership Vacuum?
Lubell surveys the current leadership landscape in L.A. and finds it "sorely lacking" in the kind of "unifying galvanizers" that have helped transform New York through design.Publication Date: Wed,...
View ArticleThe Evolving Science of Design
German researchers have shown that "shades of green can boost creativity and motivation;" a Duke University professor has demonstrated the rationale behind the "golden rectangle;" and "optimal fractal...
View ArticleStep Aside California, Michigan Modernism Gets a Spin in the Spotlight
"With the likes of Albert Kahn, Minoru Yamasaki, Eliel Saarinen, and Charles and Ray Eames all calling Michigan home at some point in their careers, the state is arguably long overdue for a look back...
View ArticleThe Urban Agriculture Avant Garde
"There are few landscape architecture firms today that can say Urban Agriculture Design is on their shortlist of services offered," says Taddei.Publication Date: Tue, 06/25/2013
View ArticleWhy Aren't Boston's First Parklets Being Used?
"Since the city installed a parklet in Jamaica Plain at 351 Centre St. and another at 1528 Tremont St.Publication Date: Sun, 11/17/2013
View ArticleAre these 5 Buildings the Greatest American Architectural Achievements?
What do New York’s Guggenheim Museum and Chrysler Building, along with Chicago’s Willis Tower and John Hancock Center and New Haven Connecticut’s David S. Ingall’s Rink have in common?Publication Date:...
View ArticleIs Los Angeles the Museum Capital of the United States?
While Los Angeles might not be known in art circles as the museum capital of America, Los Angeles County Planner Clement Lau thinks the city should be in the running.Publication Date: Tue, 06/17/2014
View ArticleHow Park Design Helps Keep Communities Healthy
It is well settled that parks not only contribute to a community’s aesthetics but also promote healthy living.A sampling of the country’s healthiest cities looks at how urban parks contribute to each...
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Subtle, Gentle Creep North for Development in San Francisco's SoMa
With the opening in 1986 of Nordstrom, followed by Bloomingdales next door 20 years later, then Giant’s ballpark and Mission Bay, the once industrial, working class sector of San Francisco south of...
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Architectural Renderings Depict Only the 'Wired and Young'
Heightened diversity is one of the hallmarks of any urban center. But according to John King, "[the] city imagined by designers and developers is a monoculture of the wired and young."Publication Date:...
View ArticleThe Wind Eyes: Designing for Natural Ventilation in Multi-Family Buildings
As cities provide incentives for density, it's important that new multi-family buildings implement best practices for natural ventilation to achieve quality of life and energy efficiency benefits.
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Designing The Urban Technology Landscape
Urban planning has long concerned itself with the nuances of multi-stakeholder input and assessments, physical form, and environmental context. But what of the technologies used?Publication Date: Wed,...
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