City planning Archives

City planning

Lots to Lose

by Henry Grabar,

From Paved Paradise, which will be published next month by Penguin Press. Parking psychosis is a regular feature of American life. The former NFL safety T. J. Cunningham was killed…

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

Instant City

by Nicolai Ouroussoff,

China’s Wild West gets tamed

Kabubble

by Matthieu Aikins,

Counting down to economic collapse in the Afghan capital

The Acme Corporation

by Alec MacGillis,

A town fights back against a big-box coup

Holding Harlem

by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,

Yellow-card journalism

by Chris Barron,

Green dawn

by Mara Hvistendahl,

In China, sustainable cities rise by fiat

Back to the Future

by Russ Rymer,

Disney reinvents the company town

Redevelopment as pork barrel

by D.D. Guttenplan,

Dreams

by James S. Kunen,

Remembering the future