The City as Factory

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Perhaps the only urban planner ever to conduct fieldwork in stilettos, Currid slips past velvet ropes to argue in The Warhol Economy that New York City’s bounty resides not in the office tower but rather in the street, where art and creativity propel the city’s economy and distinguish it from the overgrown office parks that pass for American cities in the postindustrial age.

Building Better: Art or Eco?

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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.

Modernism In Fragments

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Nathan Glazer’s From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City reveals how this influential social movement’s good intentions shaped the look of the 20th century. Anyone born in the second half of …

Debunking, and Creating, Myths of Sprawl

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At each turn, Bruegmann accepts that the current American landscape is more than all right, and argues that Americans should have chosen sprawl because sprawl is good and that no movement towards density, no matter how fervent, should obscure suburbia’s virtues.