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Urbanism
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Viewpoints
15 Essential Architecture and Design Reads for 2023
These must-read articles will give you all the inspiration and motivation you need to start the new year right.
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Viewpoints
The Dark Side of Rick Caruso’s Fantasy Worlds
The developer, now a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, has created beloved developments that often substitute for missing public spaces. But at heart they are anything but civic.
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Profiles
Through Creative Placemaking, Carbon Office Nurtures Community in Jackson, Mississippi
After stints in the local government, Salam Rida and Travis Crabtree are striking out on their own to help ameliorate the city’s long-standing problems.
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A City’s Surface Reflects Its Inequities
With the multiplying risks of urban heat and the pandemic, a city's streets and sidewalks tend to highlight vulnerabilities in urban communities.
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Profiles
Game Changers 2020: WXY and Future Green on Collaborative Urbanism
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Claire Weisz of WXY and David Seiter of Future Green discuss the complexities of designing within New York's diverse biomes and histories.
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In the Driverless City, How Will Our Streets Be Used?
A glut of speculative plans reimagine the future streetscape. But is it a road to nowhere?
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Projects
T SAKHI’s Urban Interventions
Founded by sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, the intercontinental studio aims to change how people interact in cities.
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Viewpoints
Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Spatial Research and Urban Conflict
With an unabashed embrace of the empirical, contributors assert something about how space is experienced.
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Urban Renewal, A Blight on Other American Cities, Sparked an Architectural Renaissance in Pittsburgh
The editors of the new volume Imagining the Modern argue that the reviled federal program was responsible for creating the postcard Pittsburgh.
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Profiles
Vishaan Chakrabarti on His New Deanship at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design
Metropolis caught up with the architect and planner, discussing his current projects, America's political climate, and more.
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How to Bring Density to the Pacific Northwest’s Booming Cities
At Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, architects, planners, and developers looked into strategies to ensure a sustainable and equitable future for Seattle and its surrounding areas.
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Projects
In Sulphur Springs, Texas, a Community-Driven Vision Sparks Downtown Revitalization and Pride
Two years of collaborative planning produced a $6.3 million renewal of the rural city’s four-acre civic square and main streets.
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Viewpoints
In New York City, a Bold Urban Plan Seeks to Revitalize Miles of Shoreline
As part of our 2018 Design Cities issue, Metropolis looked at projects, firms, and places that are driving global design culture today.
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“Urban Design is Thinking Retroactively” in Fight Against Terror, Says Architect Claire Weisz
In just two weeks time, world leaders in business, tech, and politics (President Trump included) will descend upon Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting. This year’s summit, themed
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Projects
Urban Density, Walkability, and Live-Work Lifestyle: Developing Livable Cities
A Q&A with Ziegler Cooper Architects on the shift in America's urban density patterns due to changing lifestyles and workplace demographics.
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Events
AECOM and Van Alen Institute Reveal Urban SOS 2017 Finalists
The student ideas competition seeks to expand how planners traditionally think about cities and hinterlands, finding new fresh solutions and perspectives in the process.
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Viewpoints
The World’s Best Design Cities 2017
Metropolis editors choose 15 cities around the globe that set the bar highest for progressive design and good living.
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Projects
Revitalized Musée d’arts de Nantes Aims not for Spectacle but for Coherence
The newly reopened museum, one of France’s great art institutions, unites four centuries of architectural history.
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Designing for the Moment Refugees Become Neighbors
Seattle architect Rania Qawasma has created an award-winning guide for refugees navigating day-to-day life in American cities.
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Projects
What to Make of Steven Holl’s “Urban Hopes”?
A monograph dedicated to Steven Holl's large-scale projects in China points to a new 21st-century urbanism.