Claiming Public Space

A Playground Where Creativity Can Run Wild

A New York city architect has updated the adventure playground to make it safer, hip and stylish.

Planting pipelines in national parks?

The U.S. federal government has proposed the creation of energy corridors, areas of land where the infrastructure needed to move energy resources including hydrogen, oil, natural gas, and electricity will be constructed. Is this sound policy or a trojan horse?

Toward walkability - and happiness

A recent international study on happiness by researchers at Leicester University in England ranked the United States as only the 23rd happiest place in the world. Denmark is the happiest, according to the research.

A deluge waiting to happen

Nature will do as nature does, but humans are to blame for the deadly Midwestern floods in the U.S.

America's Most Fuel-Efficient Neighborhoods

With the national average price of gasoline topping $4 a gallon, it's a propitious time to make the case for gas-sipping neighborhoods.

Blueprint for power

The German feuilletons spent the spring debating the relationship between architecture and morality.

Call for entries: Design the best street for the 21st century

"Designing the 21st Century Street" is an open design competition sponsored by Transportation Alternatives.

The public liability of West Bromwich�s The Public

Will Alsop has called The Public his best-ever building, but after a visit to the £54m Midlands arts centre, Ellis Woodman has other ideas.

Berlin's Social Housing Gets World Heritage Status

Berlin exported its modernist aesthetic of the 1920s around the world but its own examples of Bauhaus-style social housing had long gone unrecognized. Until now. On Monday UNESCO gave six properties in Berlin the World Heritage seal of approval.

Environmental Groups Slam G8 Leaders for Not Doing More on Global Warming

Amy Goodman discusses environmental groups' reactions withWalden Bello, senior analyst at Focus on the Global South.