A coalition of developers, public officials, and planners has now converged on the barren sidewalks of Century City to see if contemporary planning principles can commingle with modernism.
Transportation Planning Warms Up to Climate Change
America’s 200 million drivers and their 10 trillion annual vehicle miles traveled pose possibly the greatest collective action problem in human history. Transportation thus may be the great untapped resource—the Saudi Arabia of climate change mitigation.
Building Better: Art or Eco?
Some architects worry that the flood of announcements of buildings earning acclaim from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program can detract from a building’s aesthetic merits and even devolve into a symbol of easy self-congratulation.