America
Pennsylvania Avenue has never become the great street it was always supposed to be. The Hoover Building is why. Its vacancy is a rare urban gift. Its redevelopment could redefine Washington for a century. In 1961, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a young aide in the Kennedy administration, already thinking harder
Africa
In August 2009 the homes and businesses of nineteen thousand people in Port Harcourt, Nigeria were reduced to rubble over the course of a single weekend. Security forces moved through the Njemanze waterfront community with bulldozers and no warning. There was no compensation. There was no resettlement plan. There was
Grapes and Gloves
Part One: The Corporate Game Although it is no longer America’s highest-revenue sport, baseball is still known around the world as America’s “national pastime”. Because of its long season, it attracts more viewers than any other American sport. Because of the way it is played, it is
Africa
Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among
America
The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the country’s development over the last century in profound ways. But while it is the former two who predominately shaped the high-rise character of American’s commercial downtowns amid
Cities
Downtown Asheville, North Carolina: One of the best vacation destinations in the United States, Asheville features a hilly downtown with some of the best shopping and restaurants in the entire country. From the French Broad Chocolate Bar to restaurants featured on the Eater 38, downtown Asheville is hopping come summertime.
America
Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly the pit stop of choice for an impressive laundry list of major companies? How is it positioned among the growing number of Middle-Eastern industrial free zones? And should Rust Belt cities like Cincinnati look this way for answers? If a nation's cities
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2025 note: This post was originally published in 2013. Its projections about the future of downtown proved shockingly accurate, as many planners have now embraced the notion of a "residential future of downtown" . Today, the combined loss of commercial real estate demand downtown is being coupled with an
Cities
Originally published in 2015: https://www.newgeography.com/content/005063-techno-fixing-urban-zone In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is putting it mildly. Its detractors say the city accepted too