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Around the World in 80 Minutes

Flight Simulator 2020 provides a worldwide playset for architects and urbanists

A wrapped tower with rememberances for grenfell victims
Inquiring Minds Want To Know

Cost-cutting, cladding confusion, and ‘lost’ files: Grenfell three years on

street dining in nyc in Jackson heights, which was covered under the neighborhoods now initiative
Valuable Tools

Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum launch online design toolkit for COVID-19 recovery efforts

modules on a beach, an example of prefabrication in an urban context
Encouraging the Unconventional

NYC Public Design Commission explores small-scale prefabrication potential in a big-city context

SoHo, next up for a rezoning, in the winter with snow
SoHo, NoHo, WoHo, EoHo

With the Industry City rezoning dead, NYC turns its eye to SoHo

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Big Moves In Olympic City USA

Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed pedestrian bridge hoisted into place in Colorado Springs

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Canopy Calling

Boston issues an RFP for its first urban forest plan

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A Matter of Truss

LMN Architects completes a connectivity-boosting bridge in Everett, Washington

a confederate monument in virgina, which would be moved under the monuments project
A More Just Public Square

Mellon Foundation pledges $250 million to help reshape American monuments

a historic courthouse building overlooking Quebedeaux Park
Solemn Markers

Officials approve transforming a Houston park into memorial for victims of racial violence

illustration of a public space in manhattan
Anything You Need It To Be

WIP Collaborative’s Restorative Ground wins Care for Hudson Square design competition

photo of overflowing trash in Prospect Park, one of many affected NYC parks
Sanctuaries of Sanity

Op-ed: NYC, don’t give up on parks when we need them most

illustration of waterfront revitalization project in Chester, Pennsylvania
On the Up and Up

NBBJ unveils waterfront-revitalizing master plan for Chester, Pennsylvania

A rikers replacement jail site, the tombs, in chinatown
It's The Story That Never Ends...

State judge blocks Rikers replacement tower in Manhattan

An encampment of people experiencing homelessness, under blue tarps
The Best Kind of Medicine

Study finds permanent supportive housing could help end chronic homelessness

downtown new rochelle
A New Approach in New Roc City

New Rochelle, New York, launches a virtual reality platform to visualize planned downtown improvements

illustration of reimagined public housing complex
Improving “Houses” for the 21st Century

Peterson Rich Office and Regional Plan Association return with design recommendations for improving NYCHA properties

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Because 2020 Isn't Dystopian Enough

Urban dystopias get grounded at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

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