If it works for NYC's Department of Transportation, why can't it work in other cities for other projects?

NYC is inviting nonprofit organizations to respond to an RFP to create neighborhood plazas for the city.  The trick is that the nonprofit must agree to operate and maintain the space.  That…

Have a look at these exciting new designs that aim to revitalize Cleveland’s downtown area by rethinking its main public space, Public Square.

James Corner Field Operations, best known for their work on New York’s High Line Park, has been asked by two local non-profits Parkworks and The Downtown Cleveland…

Our colleague Rob Forbes, founder of Design within Reach and at work on an exciting new urban project, tells The New York Times why parks and public space matter.

Read the article here.

Seriously?  McMansions are on the wane? 

The trends seem to suggest that, yes, it's true.  The median size of new houses in the U.S. shrank last year, reversing a decades-long trend. And this year,  the trend continues, with houses nearly 200 square feet smaller than two years ago.  Average new…

Those who met Enrique Penalosa at our national meeting in San Diego last spring know that he is unapologetically pro-urban, pro-pedestrian and anti-car.  We recently ran across a series of videos featuring Enrique's thoughts on a car-free world, investing in public space and cities as a means of achieving equality…

Cityspinning, an organization developing a platform to seed new ways of using public and unused spaces with a series of interventions in Bangalore and Delhi, is exploring how mobile cultural spaces might help make a city “less alienating and fragmented”.

The results of a competition, in which…

Good news for city leaders looking for different ideas.

According to Marcia Caines, in this blog, the design trend at the recent International DMY Design Festival in Berlin was greater emphasis on “public space, recycling, re-use and open source technologies”, which she sees…