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Karl Magi | Jan 10th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
A conversation with Tai Ziola, a young architect whose approach to the issue of suburban sprawl encompasses LEED compliant housing, renewing urban areas and creating a denser social fabric for inner-city neighborhoods. (
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Karl Magi | Jan 7th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (
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City/Culture | Mary Jones | Nov 3rd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Midwest | Cities: |
Photographer Chris Mottalini brings to life what he calls “architectural products of human concern and emotion” with visual depictions of homemade bus stops in Greater Buffalo. (
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Cali Pfaff | Oct 21st, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
A building in New Orleans is reconstructed into Louisiana’s first LEED Platinum commercial building and a vital hub in the 9th Ward. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Oct 6th, 2010 | Topic: Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Jul 6th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
In his final dispatch from the World Expo in Shanghai, Josh Leon takes a look at the bold architectural offerings of Britain and China—and critiques the U.S.‘s “disinterested” effort. (
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Katherine Don | Apr 8th, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York, San Francisco |
A look back on Broadacre City, the great architect’s unrealized legacy. (
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Street Science | Jeanne Haffner | Mar 25th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston |
In the latest entry of her column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner looks to history—and her readers—to determine whether, even in an age of computer modeling, hand drawing remains indispensable. (
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Brendan Crain | Mar 19th, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: Houston, San Francisco |
Brendan Crain wonders why the upcoming Shanghai Expo can’t follow Vancouver’s lead and absorb the new structures into the urban landscape after the event is over. (
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Michelle Kuly | Oct 23rd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Next American City kicked-off our URBANEXUS series on Oct. 29 & Oct. 31 in Los Angeles. Find a slideshow of the event plus full audio of Mark Vallianatos’ speech right here on
AmericanCity.org! (
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A conversation with Tai Ziola, a young architect whose approach to the issue of suburban sprawl encompasses LEED compliant housing, renewing urban areas and creating a denser social fabric for inner-city neighborhoods. (keep reading…)
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (keep reading…)
Photographer Chris Mottalini brings to life what he calls “architectural products of human concern and emotion” with visual depictions of homemade bus stops in Greater Buffalo. (keep reading…)
A building in New Orleans is reconstructed into Louisiana’s first LEED Platinum commercial building and a vital hub in the 9th Ward. (keep reading…)
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (keep reading…)
In his final dispatch from the World Expo in Shanghai, Josh Leon takes a look at the bold architectural offerings of Britain and China—and critiques the U.S.‘s “disinterested” effort. (keep reading…)
A look back on Broadacre City, the great architect’s unrealized legacy. (keep reading…)
In the latest entry of her column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner looks to history—and her readers—to determine whether, even in an age of computer modeling, hand drawing remains indispensable. (keep reading…)
Brendan Crain wonders why the upcoming Shanghai Expo can’t follow Vancouver’s lead and absorb the new structures into the urban landscape after the event is over. (keep reading…)
