Topic: Urban Design
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Next Great Idea
Why Our Cities Look and Work the Way They Do
A conversation with Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore about their new book, American Urban Form.
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Contests
The Urbanist Toolkit Bracket Challenge
March Madness for urban design nerds.
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The (Failed) Idea That Links St. Petersburg and Mumbai
Even in cities laid out to micro-manage and shape its residents, the people who use public space can't be controlled.
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On Second Thought, Maybe Accepting $5 Million to Erect a Statue of a Foreign Dictator's Dad Isn't Such a Great Idea
Mexico City's surreal adventure with Heydar Aliyev.
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Can You Tell a City By Its Blocks?
What if blocks could be extracted, stripped of all but their essential form, and lined up for inspection? Would we know a place by the sum of its parts?
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Bikeshare Stations Don't Have to Be Clunky
A Swiss design firm imagines elegant docking systems that blend into the urban mold.
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Videos
The Politics of Skateboarding
A new film explores the conflicted relationship between the skater and the city.
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Urban Wonk
Is Bad Urban Design Making Us Lonely?
Social interaction can be encouraged by our built environment. But it isn't always.
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Could This Be the World's Weirdest Pedestrian Bridge?
The designers of this proposed Amsterdam river bridge get a little too whimsical for their own good.
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Archives
NASA's Groovy Concept Art for the Orbiting Cities of the Future
Not content with putting a man on the moon in 1969, the aeronautics agency once aimed to create an entire space-based neighborhood.
