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The Omnibus Roundup – BlockParty Tickets, Culture Wars, Redistricting Blues, Speaker Quinn’s plan, Changes to the Subway and London Claims Victory!

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Atlantic Yards Watch: Tracking Daily Impacts

In April 2006, recognizing how blogs had sprung up in response to the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, The New York Times suggested the development “may well be the first large-scale urban real estate venture in New York City where …

Foreclosed: Between Crisis, Possibility and Revision

About four years ago, a latent pattern of unethical, self-interested and surreptitious decision-making reared its head to wreak havoc in the American housing market. Americans were living on a dream buoyed by false hope: we thought we could have it …

Beyond Flyover Urbanism: Learning from São Paulo

Thaddeus Pawlowski reflects on his participation in a recent professional urban design exchange between São Paulo and New York.

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The Real Social Life of Wireless Public Spaces

I feel compelled to respond to a recent article and photo essay (PDF) published by a group of communications scholars led by Keith Hampton. Hampton is best known for his doctoral research under Barry Wellman, in which he studied the …

The Ultimate Country of Cities

In the final installment of a Country of Cities, Vishaan pens a love letter to Japan, a country that has shaped his beliefs in the importance of dense urban living.

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On Criticism 8: Critiquing Critics

Last week at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a panel of six notable writers, editors, and curators spoke about the status of design criticism today (note: Justin Davidson, Lebbeus Woods and Kazys Varnelis were not there). Led by Joseph …

Liberation Squares

In the ninth installment of A Country of Cities, Vishaan examines the protests unfolding across the Middle East in terms of how urban space can enhance or prohibit social change.

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Against a Notion of Urban Science

In the most recent of its annual “Year in Ideas” issues, the New York Times Magazine devoted a lengthy feature article to the topic of how cities function and how we understand them. Entitled “A Physicist Solves the City

On Criticism 7: Authority and Responsibility

In the past two weeks, a minor kerfuffle, the kind in which the Internet specializes, has erupted over the direction and substance of architecture criticism, sparked by a short essay by critic Peter Kelly called “The New Establishment,” published in the …

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