Word: urbanisme
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Coulter also once again betrays her own blinkered urbanism, which - try as she might to appear like a regular 'Merican - naggingly resurfaces every few pages, reminding us that she has lived nearly all her life in the Northeast and much of it in Manhattan. She writes: "Environmentalists' energy plan is...
On an abandon state-hospital site a few blocks from downtown Cambridge, Minn., New Urbanism has gone country. "People are building a neighborhood," says Father James Hahn, 70, a priest and new homeowner in the Heritage Greens development. The antisprawl design movement emphasizing small homes, spaced tightly in walkable communities...
Fitness experts increasingly believe that the solution lies in finding new ways to make physical movement an unavoidable part of everyday life. Some of the best thinking along those lines has come from a new alliance of public-health experts, urban planners and architects nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson...
Tange's designs were unique, visionary, and hugely influential for their unapologetic urbanism and bold experimentation in both form and materials. A lifelong devotee of Swiss modernist Le Corbusier, Tange shared many of his idol's best and worst tendencies-his buildings could be brutal, cold and impractical, and have...
O.K., but how? The built environment is not easy to unbuild. In the late 1980s an architectural and city-planning movement called new urbanism grew to promote the construction of more densely developed and neighborly towns. It led to the construction of subdivisions, like Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Md., and the...