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Planning
02.20.12: Lawrence Vale
Housing Chicago: Cabrini-Green to Parkside of Old TownOn Places, Lawrence Vale recounts the troubled saga of Chicago's now-demolished Cabrini-Green, and the mixed-income new-urbanist style communities that are replacing the old public housing.
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11.17.11: Lisa Findley & Liz Ogbu
South Africa: From Township to TownOn Places, Lisa Findley and Liz Ogbu describe the ongoing struggle to transform the once segrated black townships of South Africa into diverse and thriving towns.
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11.14.11: Robert E. Lang & Arthur C. Nelson
Megapolitan AmericaOn Places, planners Robert Lang and Arthur Nelson argue that the United States can now be understood in terms of a new geography of large and powerful "megapolitan" regions.
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11.10.11: Andrew Ross
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable CityOn Places, Andrew Ross analyzes the contradictory political and economic forces that once made Phoenix the fastest-growing city in the U.S. — and today a prime casualty of the crash.
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10.27.11: Adam Harrison Levy
Urbanized: An Interview with Gary HustwitAn interview with filmmaker Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, Objectified and the new documentary Urbanized, which opens this weekend in New York.
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10.17.11: Cynthia E. Smith
Design with the Other 90%: CitiesOn Places, Cynthia Smith, curator of the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," offers an in-depth look at her research into socially responsive urban design in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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09.06.11: James Barilla
The Road to ExurbiaOn Places, James Barilla recounts the rural pleasures of growing up in a hill town in Western Massachusetts — yet regrets the deep environmental footprint of low-density exurban life.
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04.25.11: Thomas J. Campanella
Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American PlanningOn Places, Thomas Campanella evaluates the complex legacy Jane Jacobs, including the ongoing marginalization of the urban planning profession.
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02.27.11: Mohamed Elshahed
Tahrir Square: Social Media, Public SpaceOn Places, Mohamed Elshahed argues that the physical occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo was just as vital as online social media to the early success of the January 25 Revolution.
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09.20.10: Deborah Gans
Haiti and the Potential of PermacultureOn Places, architect Deborah Gans explores how the temporary resettlement camps in post-earthquake Haiti might be transformed into self-sufficient agrarian villages.
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04.19.10: Meena Kadri
People's Way: Urban Mobility in AhmedabadOn Places, New Zealand-based design writer Meena Kadri rides the new bus-rapid-transit in Ahmedabad, a system that strives to mix old and new, rich and poor — and even offers yoga classes to the drivers.
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04.05.10: Denise Hoffman Brandt
The View to America Street from Mrs. Fair’s Front Door, July 21, 2009On Places, landscape architect Denise Hoffman Brandt offers a vivid portrait of the ongoing post-Katrina struggles of one neighborhood, and one household, in New Orleans.
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04.01.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: AfterOn Places, the second of a two-part essay by Richard Campanella, on the ongoing struggles of New Orleans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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03.29.10: Richard Campanella
Delta Urbanism and New Orleans: BeforeOn Places, an excerpt from Delta Urbanism: New Orleans, geographer Richard Campanella's account of the ongoing environmental and political struggles of post-Katrina New Orleans — and why a great American city remains pathetically vulnerable to further catastrophe.
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02.08.10: Nate Berg
The Olympics and the CityVancouver planning director Brent Toderian talks with Planetizen's Nate Berg, about how the city has met the urban design challenge of playing host to the Winter Olympics.
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01.27.10: Hector Fernando Burga
A View of Haiti from Liberty CityMiami-based urban designer Hector Fernando Burga asks difficult questions about how urban designers can respond effectively to the disaster in Haiti.
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10.10.09: Timothy Beatley
The 100-Mile ThanksgivingTimothy Beatley describes a new tradition in the planning department at the University of Virginia: the 100-Mile Thanksgiving, for which students prepare the annual feast, trying to use food produced within 100 miles of the Charlottesville campus.
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12.15.08: Rene' Davids
Development, Topography, and Identity: The Dougherty Valley and the New Suburban MetropolisREAD MORE
12.15.08: Donlyn Lyndon
Danish Modern, Then and Now: The AIA Committee on Design, Historic Resources CommitteeREAD MORE
12.15.08: David Thigpen
The Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative by City Design Center, University of Illinois at ChicagoREAD MORE
10.15.08: Danai Thaitakoo, Brian McGrath
Mitigation, Adaptation, Uncertainty: Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River DeltaREAD MORE
10.15.08: Pablo Suarez, Graham Saunders, Sandra Mendler, Isabelle Lemaire, Jorge Karol, Laura Curtis
Climate-Related Disasters: Humanitarian Challenges and Reconstruction OpportunitiesREAD MORE
10.15.08: Donlyn Lyndon
The New U.S. Embassy in BerlinIn creating a new U.S. embassy in Berlin, architectural design is just one of the challenges.
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10.15.08: UrbanLab
Growing WaterGrowing Water is a bold proposal by a team of Chicago urban designers for how cities can ensure the availability of an increasingly scarce resource.
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04.16.08: Alexandra Lange
Will Miss Brooklyn Bow Out?The redevelopment of the Atlantic Yards was based on a false assumption of Brooklyn's inferiority complex.
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12.15.06: Allan Jacobs
The State of City Planning TodayA veteran city planner and educator analyzes the anemia of U.S. planning, and detects signs of life in neighborhood activism.
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01.15.05: Daniel S. Friedman
Campus Design as Critical PracticeHow to turn a lackluster midwestern campus into an international cultural destination.
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11.01.01: Ruth Durack
Village Vices: The Contradiction of New Urbanism and SustainabilityA critique of New Urbanism focusing not on its traditionalism but on the unsustainability of its planning models.
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07.15.95: Thomas J. Campanella
Splendid ChinaA tour of Splendid China, the "world's largest miniature scenic spot.
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04.01.89: Catherine Brown, William Morrish
Western Civic Art: Works in ProgressIn 1989 Phoenix, Arizona, commissioned one of the first public art master plans. The city now has one of the strongest public art programs in the country.
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07.15.83: Kevin Lynch
In No Order WhatsoeverJust before his death in 1984, the influential urban planner Kevin Lynch compiled a list of topics he thought important for the future of cities. The list is as relevant as ever.
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