Archive for the ‘Planetizen’ Category
While Madrid’s urban core is highly dense, the city has sprawled out over the last two decades much further than its growing population requires, says Madrid resident and planning consultant Marco Adelfio.
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High-density development in Australia is causing more greenhouse gases than the suburbs, argues Dr. Tony Recsei of the group Save Our Suburbs, in this rebuttal of a blog post by Michael Dudley.
The younger generation of Americans will continue to rent rather than buy, predicts the Urban Land Institute.
Human-scaled, creative development isn’t getting built because most of the money in real estate comes from institutional investors that prefer predictable, large scale projects like subdivisions and strip malls, says Neil Takemoto of CoolTown Beta Communities.
The world’s tallest building is now open in Dubai. Christopher Corbett takes you up to the 124th floor.
The editors’ choice of the most significant stories in the realm of urban planning, design and development of the “aughts” (2000-2009). The decade began with one crash and ended with another, but in between we’ve learned a lot about making cities.
