Community Architect Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

Zoning 87

Zoning Masterplanning Commercial Residential 87

BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Public housing “often gave anonymity and feelings of isolation to people living in those high-rises,” says Liebman, who was the chief of architecture for the New York State Urban Development Corporation (now Empire State Development) from 1969–1975.

Housing 104

Housing Residential Government Permits 104

Community Architect

APRIL 20, 2024

It also carries a gene that Rouse introduced back in 1978 by inserting private development into a charter protected public space which Baltimore had clawed from its formerly industrial warehouse waterfront. It also planted the seed for the tension between public and private urban space that resurfaces in the current redevelopment debate.

Contract 111

Contract Development Developer Cities 111

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was always intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s pattern language #160 “Building Edge” in which he implores us to “treat the edge of the building as a ‘thing,’, a ‘place,’ a zone with volume to it, not a line or interface with no thickness.”

Housing 64

Housing Design Residential Consulting 64

Architizer

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The design of West End Square grew in response to the local community’s needs, balancing a rich organic terrain, evocative of the Texas Blackland Prairies, with events spaces and socializing zones imbued with a remarkable technological infrastructure.

Space 84

Space Project Masterplanning Landscape 84