After World War II, radical changes in the policies of urban development, driven largely by America’s love affair with the automobile, brought about dramatic and detrimental changes to our towns and cities. While other developed countries continued to subsidize and...
Public spaces, when carefully planned, lead to improved economic growth and spur both investment and social cohesion. These are plazas, parks, city squares, and the spaces in between. Examples like Italy’s Roman Forum, Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, and London’s Trafalgar...