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Finding Ways to Create Emerald Necklaces in Built-Out Cities
...of connected parks laced through cities has been a vision of city planners since the days of Olmsted. Ben Welle of the Center for City Park Excellence has some ideas how that that...
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The Urban Farms of New York
In the Bronx, Brooklyn, and even the Upper East Side, rooftop farming is making inroads. The City Greens profiles a handful of these urban pioneers. Suyeon Kim profiles Blue Sea...
"He's been a pretty good chairman. He stays in constant communication with us," said Saxby Chambliss, the Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Gensler has regularly called to ask to visit and has made himself available when the committee needs to talk financial reform. "We don't always agree on everything, but he's been very open, very direct and he's been very forceful,"
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Once skeptical, Congress warms to CFTC's Gensler
...of his ability to rein in Wall Street as the top U.S. futures regulator. A former partner at Goldman Sachs, Gensler has quickly become a go-to guy for Congress as it navigates a sea of...
The art of the library
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING WHO: G writer June Wulff, her daughter Elise (23), and her husband, Jim WHERE: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St., Boston. Free.
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Bruce Graham, architect behind nation's tallest building, dies at 84
...insurance brokerage, remains the nation's tallest building. Though Graham had a kindly expression, he was described as tough, as forceful as a steamroller. At SOM, the office credo...
Rem Koolhaas Loses His Star Designer
...to start his own studio. Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture announced today that Ole Scheeren, the Rotterdam-based firm's envoy to Asia and its acknowledged superstar...
YOTEL- The iPOD Of the Hotel Industry Brings Affordable Luxury To New York
...and the largest hotel outside terrace space of any hotel in New York. Simon Woodroffe, Founder of YO!, said of the New York launch: "YOTEL will bring a unique mix of fun, excitement and...
Hollywood and hedge funds: Bank crisis CEOs return
REPUTATION, NOT MONEY Politicians have called for public bodies to shun architecture firm RMJM after it appointed former Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> CEO Fred Goodwin as an...
The Fascinating and Bizarre Works of MVRDV
...hovers over the city. Images courtesy of MVRDVCourtesy of MVRDVCourtesy of MVRDVCourtesy of MVRDVCourtesy of MVRDV/ProvastCourtesy of MVRDV/Rob't HartCourtesy of MVRDVCourtesy of MVRDV
Vitrahaus: A Building With a View, and a View, and a View [Architecture]
...but I must say I'd rather be standing in the Vitrahaus than sitting in a Vitra. DesignBoom, who headed out to Vitra's campus to take these photographs, has posts with a lot more...
Woodward in Boston: Where Ben Franklin Meets Supermodels
...gloom and doom and opening new places. We take a look at the design behind a select few. Today, Woodward in Boston--where a hip colonial might take his wench. When it comes to...
Blatstein's new urban plan for Northern Liberties
...and Second Street. Depending on how quickly the city's damaged real estate market heals, Blatstein said, he intends to follow up over the next several years with an ambitious agenda of...
