From the Detroit Riverfront to Campus Martius and even some of the city's alleyways, Detroit has become home to spaces ...

What makes cities such as Paris, New York, and Rio de Janeiro beloved places? They have developed distinct identities that are shaped and transformed by the people who live there and contribute to a ...

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Master-planned communities have grown more complex as developers’ ambitions, capabilities and resources continue to expand. The rising costs of infrastructure and land present challenges in how these ...

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Discussions about planning and urbanism are awash with talk of "placemaking" but the term remains strangely and troublingly opaque, writes Reinier de Graaf. I have a confession to make: I have no idea ...

Though urban planners and architects have been using the term for more than a decade, “placemaking” has only recently entered the vocabulary of developers and other real estate professionals.

It’s no secret that some of Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods have suffered from a certain level of financial disinvestment, often systemic and spread out over decades. But one Chicagoan’s efforts to inject ...