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Explore - Urban Planning
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Reburbia Voting Begins Today!
The time has come! Online voting for the best of the Reburbia competition finalists begins today. During the month of July we collected hundreds of submissions from dozens of countries proposing...
written by: Sarah Rich08.10.09 -
Reburbia Design Competition
With the current housing crisis, the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, and rising energy costs, the future of suburbia looks bleak. That's why Dwell and Inhabitat are throwing down the gauntlet: Help us...
written by: Amanda Dameron07.08.09 -
Reburbia Competition
Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com are pleased to announce the first ever Reburbia competition: a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs. Calling all future-forward architects,...
07.08.09 -
Rebuilding Haiti
In the days since the earthquake in Haiti, numerous aid groups have opened up channels for contributions small and large to assist in the immediate needs of survivors in and around Port-au-Prince....
written by: Sarah Rich01.14.10 -
Re-imagining Chinatown
If you are in Los Angeles this weekend (or any time before September 5), be sure to pay a visit to Fifth Floor Gallery to take part in the new interactive exhibition Re-imagining Chinatown by urban...
written by: Sarah Rich08.05.09 -
Rail-Volution 2009: Building with Transit
As a nod to the home of the nation's first subway, Rail-Volution rolled into Boston this past weekend. Planners, designers, engineers, and scholars eagerly feasted on the many workshops and panels...
written by: Tiffany Chu11.05.09 -
Radical Sustainability with Mitchell Joachim
Environmental thought leader, architect, and urban designer Mitchell Joachim joined Dwell editor Amanda Dameron Friday, June 21, at Dwell on Design, sharing his most innovative ideas for the city...
written by: Kim Derby06.23.12 -
Public, from Rob Forbes
Rob Forbes is best known as the founder of the much beloved modern shop Design Within Reach. What people may not know is that Forbes has an abiding love of urban design, mobility, and most...
written by: Sarah Rich02.05.10 -
Project for Public Spaces
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities....
03.14.09 -
Powell St. Parklet
San Francisco's thriving Pavement to Parks initiative—dozens of street parking spaces have been transformed into small, hardscaped parks the city over—arrived on center stage Wednesday....
written by: Aaron Britt07.14.11 -
Pop-up Parks
Eager for public space, communities re-create their streets as temporary cafes, playgrounds, and bike lanes.
written by: Inga Saffronphotos by: Krista Jahnke05.18.12 -
Pooling Our Resources
After disappearing almost 70 years ago, the New York floating pool is making a comeback.
written by: Tim McKeough02.25.09 -
Play: Electric Slide
A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy.
written by: Marc Kristal11.16.09 -
Planning India: From Chandigarh to NanoCity
swissnex San Francisco invites a panel of experts to discuss the past and future of urban planning in India, highlighting two examples: Chandigarh, a city mandated by the Nehru government in the...
06.29.10 -
PearsonLloyd
PearsonLloyd is a London based design studio working across a wide variety of disciplines including furniture, product, transport and the public realm. The studio was founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke...
03.20.09 -
Park(ing) Day Website
ReBar is a San Francisco based architectural activists who create work "situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity." They're perhaps best known as the...
05.01.09 -
Panel: Density in Los Angeles
Despite what you might think about our infinite freeways, sprawling lawns and tract homes that march all the way to Vegas, Los Angeles actually has some pretty impressive developments that are...
written by: Alissa Walker06.26.09 -
Our Cities Ourselves at AIANY
Our world is becoming more and more urban. Today, as Dwell contributor Mark Lamster reported for our June 2010 Megacities issue, more than 75 cities boast populations of more than 5 million. While...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake07.21.10 -
Olympic Sculpture Park
One of the highlights of my trip to Seattle was taking an early morning photo jog from downtown over to—and through—the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. Designed by Weiss...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake11.01.10 -
Obama as an Experiment in Urban Form
President Obama is an urban president. During his time in the White House, he and his wife will maintain their home in south Chicago—in Hyde Park, specifically, just blocks from where I once...
written by: Geoff Manaugh01.21.09
