Urban Planning Archives - The American Scholar

Snapshots

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | 08/04/2017 |

The city may be changing, but the music is as great as ever

Park Life

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 06/14/2017 |

An oasis in the city

The Paradox of Urban Density

By Phillip Lopate | 12/02/2016 |

The good, the bad, and the ugly

The Old Urbanist

By Edward Glaeser | 09/06/2016 |

Jane Jacobs saw cities as places for people

In Praise of Ditches

By Miranda Weiss | 05/05/2016 |

Things both wondrous and necessary

Back to the Country

By Charlotte Salley | 12/07/2015 |

Keeping the pastoral dream alive

To Go Left, Turn Right

By Wayne Curtis | 09/10/2015 |

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right

Reimagining Suburbia

By Amanda Kolson Hurley | 09/07/2015 |

What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits?

Whom Is Nature For?

By Gaia Vince | 09/02/2015 |

We should all have access to green spaces

Living with Water

By Wayne Curtis | 08/27/2015 |

On Katrina’s tenth anniversary, the city enters a new relationship with water