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Displaying all articles tagged:
Urbanism
street view
Feb. 4, 2021
If Your City Were Really Dying, You Probably Wouldn’t Know
Visiting Annalee Newitz’s
Four Lost Cities
.
By
Justin Davidson
city hall
Dec. 16, 2020
Corey Johnson Wants to Tame the Giant Squid of City Planning
The squid may have other ideas, though.
By
Justin Davidson
city people
Dec. 1, 2020
Now That an Urban Planner Is on the City Council, Can She Help Fix Los Angeles?
Nithya Raman is calling for systemic change — including breaking up her own district.
By
Alissa Walker
coronavirus
Nov. 13, 2020
A Pandemic Winter Is Coming to New York, and It’s Going to Be Unimaginably Hard
During the last surge, New Yorkers could at least spend a lot of time outdoors.
By
Justin Davidson
urbanism
Sept. 1, 2020
Obviously, New York Is a Fiery Hellscape of Crime, Anarchy, and Misery
Bicycling. Meeting friends in the park.
Late-summer produce.
Nightmarish.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Aug. 7, 2020
COVID-19 Studies Are Proving That Density Is Not the Enemy
The real risk factor is different.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 28, 2020
New York Is Getting Loud Again
As traffic and infrastructure work begin to return, the city sounds more like itself. But not quite the same as before.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 22, 2020
New York City Is Facing a Census Emergency
And if we’re undercounted, the results may be dire.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 17, 2020
The 15-Minute City: Can New York Be More Like Paris?
And should it?
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 2, 2020
For Blue-Sky Urban Ideas, It May Be Now or Never
As the worst of the crisis (possibly) recedes, opportunity.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
June 6, 2020
To Trumpers, the Shared Space of the Street Is an Unprivatized Threat
It’s just [
waves hands
] that dirty area between the car and the front door, right?
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
June 5, 2020
It’s Time to Do Away With Rush Hour
When the pandemic ends, let’s consider what we learned about shuffled work times and staggered shifts and keep the good parts.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
May 27, 2020
Opening Up Everything Too Soon Is, Effectively, Age Discrimination
Without universal testing, you’re locking up the elderly.
By
Justin Davidson
summer in the city
May 22, 2020
That Office AC System Is Great — at Recirculating Viruses
Deep breaths may not be calming.
By
Justin Davidson
biography of a building
Apr. 30, 2020
Exploring a Real-Estate Time Capsule in Harlem
Inside Graham Court, a Gilded Age rental from the architects behind the Apthorp.
By
Matthew Sedacca
cityscape
Apr. 13, 2020
The Return of Fear in New York
The city, a child of disaster, remembers its past.
By
Justin Davidson
coronavirus
Mar. 11, 2020
Close the Theaters. Close the Opera. Close the Concert Halls. Now.
Yes, it will be brutal to the performing-arts economy. It’s also necessary.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Mar. 9, 2020
The Sunnyside Yard Master Plan Is a Mirage of a Better City
New York City’s plan for the city’s heart is the best of all worlds. Whether it can actually exist in ours is another question.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Feb. 24, 2020
Farm Livin’ Is the Life for Me,
Ja?
Rem Koolhaas Tries Out Country Life
For “Countryside, the Future,” a city boy goes to the sticks.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Feb. 10, 2020
Trump’s Classical-Architecture Edict Is Dumb — But Not Worth the Outrage
It’s boneheaded. But it doesn’t censor architects or stifle creativity in the country at large.
By
Justin Davidson
in conversation
Jan. 22, 2020
Frank Gehry Doesn’t Know How to Retire
In conversation with the most famous architect alive, who’s fully engaged and working nonstop as he turns 91.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Jan. 8, 2020
‘Slum Clearance’ Tore Down Much More Than Tenements
A new exhibition at the Center for Architecture documents the mid-century misfire of urban renewal.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Dec. 20, 2019
The Elemental Architecture of Jeanne Gang
A Chicago architect renowned for sublime engineering whose buildings really work for New Yorkers.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Dec. 11, 2019
A Transit Hub for an All-Corporate San Francisco Future
A public project that almost feels privatized.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Dec. 2, 2019
Revealed: The Plans for David Geffen Hall and for the Music Within
A $500 million renovation that will finally fix that room. Maybe.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Nov. 20, 2019
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Renovates, and Faces an Existential Threat
A new visitor center and Woodland Garden, and the long shadow of proposed high-rise neighbors.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Nov. 6, 2019
Two New Buildings Break Free of the Glass Straitjacket
Façade materials that are able to show their age.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Oct. 30, 2019
Does the Future of Public Housing Lie in These Cozy London Projects?
Peter Barber’s cozy brickwork obliterates the usual concrete severity.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Oct. 9, 2019
The New MoMA Tries to Get Out of Its Own Way. We’ll See If It Can.
An attempt to manage the crush of visitors that’s made the museum hard to love.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Sept. 23, 2019
The Hunters Point Library Was Too Expensive, and Is Worth It
A small, great civic monument on the Queens waterfront.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Sept. 16, 2019
The Challenges of Constructing New York’s Tallest Apartment Building
A conversation with the architects of the 131-story Central Park Tower.
By
Justin Davidson
timeline
Sept. 5, 2019
The World’s Largest Ferris Wheel That Wasn’t
But might be one day? The circle of life of a Staten Island tourist attraction.
By
Matthew Sedacca
cityscape
Aug. 26, 2019
Red Tape Is Keeping New York City’s Landscape Stuck in the Past
An ambitious new plan to remake the Port Authority bus terminal highlights the extent to which the city’s balkanized bureaucracy stifles ambition.
By
Justin Davidson
urbanism
Aug. 20, 2019
Touring the Overlooked Islands of New York
Unearthing our hidden histories, from buried bodies to heron sanctuaries.
cityscape
Aug. 12, 2019
The Berkshires Have the Culture of a Major City — and New Architecture to Match
Big-city institutions amid the cow pastures.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Aug. 5, 2019
New Studies Say Gentrification Doesn’t Really Force Out Low-Income Residents
In part because it improves school integration, it may be better for lower-income residents than previously thought.
By
Justin Davidson
the bqe
July 23, 2019
The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Was a Robert Moses Head Fake
The story goes that he wanted the BQE rammed through the Heights and settled for the Promenade. It’s not true.
By
Thomas J. Campanella
cityscape
July 15, 2019
New York City Is Still a Disaster for the Disabled
Old infrastructure and grudging compliance add up to only moderate progress toward accessibility.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 8, 2019
I ♥ Tourism: Why New York Is Better When It’s Full of Annoying Visitors
Yeah, they’re in the way. But they tell the rest of the world that this is the place to be.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
July 1, 2019
A Staten Island Outlet Mall Intends to Defy the Retail Apocalypse
With bargains and lively architecture.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
June 26, 2019
Cozy Streetscapes and Big Data: Google’s Reimagining of Toronto
The public-corporate partnership on a huge scale.
By
Justin Davidson
real estate
June 16, 2019
The Last Residents of the Hotel Bossert
What’s it like to live in a nearly abandoned building?
By
Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
cityscape
June 10, 2019
The Restorations of L.A.’s Eames House and Silvertop Were Not Simple Jobs
The innovative materials and methods in the Eames Case Study house and John Lautner’s Silvertop can be a headache as they age.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
June 3, 2019
This Is the Prettiest Block in New York, And It’s Just Been Perfectly Restored
Station Square, renovated and camera-ready.
By
Justin Davidson
urban planning
May 30, 2019
Why New York Can’t Have Nice Things
It costs three times more to build a subway station here than in London or Paris. What if we could change that?
By
Josh Barro
cityscape
May 23, 2019
How Disney Hall Transformed a Downtown L.A. Neighborhood and the City Beyond
“The 90-year-old architect may yet get to walk around the effervescent urban core he envisioned with art and music at its center.”
By
Justin Davidson
suburbs
Apr. 29, 2019
The Suburbs Can Be Fixed. No, Really.
It won’t happen in one giant swoop. But small changes can have big effects.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Apr. 15, 2019
A Pair of New U.S. Embassies, Arriving at an Undiplomatic Moment
Reimagining the American compounds in New Delhi and Mexico City.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Apr. 8, 2019
The Shed at Hudson Yards Stays Half-True to Its Radical Roots
Whether it busts out of tameness is up to the programmers.
By
Justin Davidson
cityscape
Apr. 1, 2019
Essex Crossing Is a Megadevelopment That Knows Its Tenement Neighbors
A pair of towers and a new Essex Street Market, plunked into the Lower East Side, turn out to be surprisingly well-integrated into the local fabric.
By
Justin Davidson
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