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Dissolving the Swamp

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to rid Walt Disney World of its special tax district privileges

Rails to Trails

London approves planning for the first section of the Camden Highline

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HydroPAUered Design

PAU and Hargreaves Jones reveal plans for a spiraling Niagara Falls observation deck and park

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Move Over, Cars

Fifth Avenue redesign gives pedestrians free reign over one of the city’s busiest streets

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Recovery Road Map

Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams share the New New York plan with 40 ideas for a post-pandemic city

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Irwin Wreck

Historic Columbus, Indiana, building destroyed in weekend blaze

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Go with the Flow

David Adjaye’s riverfront master plan gives us a reason to visit Cleveland

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Paradise Paved Over

Segregation by Design maps highway expansion in Florida’s Magic City

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“A radical politics of hope”

AN shares tributes to Mike Davis (1946–2022)

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3D Burbs

ICON and BIG break ground on the world’s largest 3D-printed community

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New York Scrim

Leonid Furmansky captures the surfaces of a city eternally under inspection

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A New Hudson Street

After establishing a master plan for Hudson Square and realizing a trio of new parks, MNLA delivers a leafy streetscape for this developing Manhattan neighborhood

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Prometheus Squared

The work of Bruno Latour, who died last month, offers lessons about how to engage the built environment

Arboreal Assist

At COP27, SOM unveils Urban Sequoia NOW, a “readily constructable,” carbon-absorbing tower

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Four-ward Thinking

New York City’s 2022–23 cohort of Public Artists in Residence will develop art projects addressing city issues

The $2 Billion Question

Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed

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Rikers Rebirth

Regional Plan Association and RISD reimagine NYC’s notorious Rikers Island as a green energy hub

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The Sour Broker

Ralph Fiennes plays an angry Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy

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