A panel of four influential people gathered to discuss whether the High Line should be considered an exemplary or replicable model for future New York City Parks.

When searching the web for dictionary definitions of "cultural district," amid academic articles and policy papers, Wikipedia's is actually the most concise: “a well-recognized, labeled, mixed-use area of a settlement in which a high concentration of cultural facilities serves as the anchor of attraction.” Cultural districts can be found...

Two recent conferences make clear that while New Yorkers enthuse about Hong Kong’s advances, many from Hong Kong worry about the cost of progress.

In advance of a major policy event on technology's impact on regional planning, Tom Wright and Rob Lane discuss the meaning and uses of innovation in the New York metro-region.

Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do?

Regional Plan Association President Bob Yaro reflects on the transformation of Midtown West, focusing on three pivotal sites: Penn Station, Hudson Yards, and the Javits Center.

A look at the 2008 ideas competition launched by the Design Trust for Public Space and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition to generate new visions for New York’s “greatest unrealized asset.”