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Urban Revitalization
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How Midsize Cities Are Driving America’s Urban Transformation
Explore how American cities with populations under 1 million are reimagining themselves with bold projects and policies, and driving urban transformation and innovation.
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Ford Unveils Details of its Plans for Detroit’s Corktown
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and Gensler envision how the Michigan Central mobility innovation district will embrace the past and provide future opportunities for Detroit’s communities.
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American Acropolis: The End of an Era in Detroit
Award-winning photographer Camilo Vergara recounts his memories of Detroit, a city that "has lost so much of the mystery and strangeness of its ruins" as to be almost unrecognizable.
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La Kretz Innovation Campus Showcases LA’s Leadership in Green
The campus, a finalist for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, is one of several major public investments redefining the identity of Los Angeles as a clean tech leader and sustainable urban center.
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Five Urban Projects Transforming America: The Rudy Bruner Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence include an urban infill project for homeless women and children, a steel plant-turned-cultural center, and Chicago's much-lauded Riverwalk park.
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Will 2017 Be Mexico City’s Watershed Moment?
The CoRE Urban Forum brought international experts and local actors together to catalyze change in this pivotal moment in the city's history.
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Reclaiming East Harlem’s Viaduct for Community Health
The New Harlem East Merchants Association have plans to transform the dank space below the tracks of 125th Street and turn it into a catalyst for community health.
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What To Do with Lost Spaces Under NYC’s Bridges, Highways, Subway Tracks?
A study by the Design Trust for Public Space and the Department of Transportation suggests ways to reclaim 7,000 miles in U.S. cities for public use.
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Lost Spaces 2015: Restoring Calgary’s Neglected Urban Spaces
The Lost Spaces 2015 Ideas Competition asked designers to produce projects that would restore Calgary's forgotten or neglected urban spaces.
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New Urban Initiatives Promise to Solve Philadelphia’s Chinatown Puzzle
New urban initiatives promise to resolve Philadephia's Chinatown puzzle.
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FIT Students Design with Downtown America in Mind
A recent design competition hosted by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology looked to a small North Carolina town for inspiration.
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Can This New Concept Mall Revive Interest in West Berlin?
The recently-opened complex combines fashion, high culture, and a resourceful spirit to reinvent the shopping experience.
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San Francisco’s Pier 9 Is Now The Cutting-Edge Autodesk Workshop
An exclusive look at the software giant's digital manufacturing facility created by Lundberg Design.
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Buffalo Looks to Past Architectural Triumphs to Define Its Future
Architectural preservation is playing a key role in the city's renewal.
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Flea Markets Inject New Life Into Houston Neighborhood
How one Houston neighborhood is betting on flea market trucks and other mobile venues to revitalize their community.
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Demolishing This New Orleans Highway? Easier Said Than Done
Why plans to remove a downtown highway in New Orleans's Treme neighborhood are easier said than done.
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Hamburg Looks to Become Europe’s Green-Building Showpiece
How Hamburg's first International Building Exhibition is changing the face of the city.
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Eric Owen Moss, the Architect Behind Culver City’s Rebirth
The architect's 27-year-long collaboration with Frederick and Laurie Samitaur Smith has transformed a once-derelict area into a thriving urban community.
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On the Road with the Rudy Bruner Award: Louisville Waterfront Park
Transforming industrial land along the Ohio River
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Olson Kundig Transforms Vacant Storefront Into Brainstorming Space
Serving as an informal R&D lab, the firm’s street-front exhibition space helps them interact with the public and discover new paths to creativity.