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Urban Design

  1. cityscape
    New York City Is Still a Disaster for the DisabledOld infrastructure and grudging compliance add up to only moderate progress toward accessibility.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. the master remembered
    From 2017, a Portrait of I. M. Pei at (Nearly) 100Having conquered modernism, he moved beyond it to etch his legacy into the past century.
    By Justin Davidson
  3. urban design
    Hunter’s Point South: NYC’s Newest Park Redeems a WastelandHunter’s Point South furnishes us huddled masses with a romantic, poetic landscape, full of choreographed surprises.
    By Justin Davidson
  4. urban planning
    A Year Has Passed Since the Grenfell Tower Fire. It Could Happen Again Anytime.This was murder by negligent bureaucracy. Preventing the next one begins with stronger regulation.
    By Justin Davidson
  5. urban design
    What’s Going Into the Shed? A Tiny Preview of Hudson Yards’ Arts OfferingA mini-shed near the actual Shed contains a sample of what’s to come.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. urban planning
    Why You Should Be in Favor of Congestion Pricing in New YorkYes, it’s annoying to be taxed for something that always appeared to be free. Get over it.
    By Justin Davidson
  7. the city
    What Is a City Street? And What Will It Become?Fewer cars, some of them driverless, and more space for everything else.
    By Justin Davidson
  8. infrastructure
    Bill de Blasio, New York’s Putterer-in-ChiefA mayor who contents himself with piling up small achievements instead of making sweeping change.
    By Justin Davidson
  9. Precisely Why Is Bodega, the Start-up, Such a Terrible Idea?It is anti-city, anti-sharing, anti-kitteh.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  10. encounter
    Surveying Post-Bloomberg New York With Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan DoctoroffThe self-described “creature of the suburbs” helped remake this city, in some ways, for his own maximum personal comfort.
    By Carl Swanson
  11. The Megatowers Are Coming to East MidtownA proposed zoning change to the area near Grand Central is set to remake the neighborhood for decades. But at what cost?
    By Justin Davidson
  12. When Culture Feels Like O’Hare: On the Shed and the Giant-Sizing of MoMAGiant-sizing our culture.
    By Justin Davidson
  13. urban design
    Behold the Next New Astor PlaceIt survived riots and punks. How about low-key plazas and cute NYU kids?
    By Justin Davidson
  14. urban design
    Imagining a Wooden SkylineA new miracle building material that could change the way skyscrapers are designed.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. cityscape
    The Urban Designer Who Brought Whimsy to London Is Turning His Eye to New YorkThomas Heatherwick is the Willy Wonka of Hudson Yards.
    By Carl Swanson
  16. the critics
    Sugar Hill: Affordable Housing As Arty FortressThe new building is maddening precisely because of its fine intentions, but extravagant misjudgments. 
    By Justin Davidson
  17. behold the future
    There Is Suddenly a Huge Budget for Hurricane-Proofing NYC Maybe the time the next great storm menaces, we’ll watch it roll in from atop a necklace of landscaped mounds.
    By Justin Davidson
  18. urban design
    What Bloomberg Associates Can Learn From Mexico CityBloomberg might fantasize about cleaning up the chaos, but he ought to study what’s already been accomplished.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. urban design
    Davidson on the Tricky Landmark DebatesConsider these six.
    By Justin Davidson
  20. hurricane sandy
    10 Design Ideas to Prepare Us for the Next SandyThe future will not be dry.
    By Justin Davidson
  21. hurricane sandy
    New York’s Wet Future: How to Live With the SeaUntil last week, re-redesigning the waterfront seemed like a leisure-time extra. Now it’s become urgent business.
    By Justin Davidson