Philadelphia zoning change to boost redevelopment
Two members of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City Council are proposing changes to a new zoning classification that’s meant to encourage the redevelopment of former…
Issue #2: May 1, 2015
Complexity in socioeconomic systems
This paper by Dirk Helbing, Computational Social Science at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland is titled Complexity in socioeconomic systems: How to build smart &…
Detroit: Restore? Repurpose? Demolish?
A city in the world’s richest country that can count more modern ruins than any other. This is Detroit, Michigan, where several areas of…
Gentrification: A racial or economic issue?
This article about the revitalization of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood explores what happens when the gentrifiers of a black neighborhood are black. Traditionally, gentrification has…
Moscow, Russia reconnects with its river
In the Fall of 2014, Russia’s capital city of Moscow sponsored an international design competition to re-imagine what the whole river and its surrounding…