Christopher Klemek (GWU): The Rise and Fall of New Left Urbanism. What a city needs: A review of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint (and an interview; and more on Jacobs). Why it's a good thing Frank Gehry isn't going to design Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards development. A park grows in Brooklyn: Michael van Valkenburgh takes back New York’s waterfront. Detroit's Future: Will the once-great American city recover? (and more in pictures) Forest Hills Gardens is a walkable, transit-oriented, architecturally rich planned community, built 100 years ago. How decent bike parking could revolutionize American cities. All over America, cities are becoming vast playgrounds for practitioners of parkour. Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities", city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations. From Forbes, a special report on the 21st Century City, including Joel Kotkin on world capitals of the future; and Lawrence Osborne on sex and the city of the future. The megalopolis as fantasy machine. Slums are good for cities: The world's booming mega-cities are facing a crisis, but the solution is not to clear slums, but to support them. Can architecture heal a city? Hamburg hopes its new half-a-billion-dollar concert venue, Elbphilharmonie, will help unite the city. The architect of 9/11: In Aleppo, Syria, Mohamed Atta thought he could build the ideal Islamic city. A remarkable architectural endeavour, South Korea's Paju Book City is a place of pilgrimage for anyone who delights in those old information technologies.
