2013

2012

  • Introduction to 'The Mexican Patio House'

    Introduction to the forthcoming book by José Antonio Pérez examining the patio houses of Lagos de Moreno in Jalisco, Mexico.

  • The Emerging Asian City

    Director of Design Vinayak Bharne has edited this collection of twenty-four scholarly essays, including four of his own, that surveys the multifarious urbanities and urbanisms that constitute the Asian urban landscape.

  • Al Jamea tus Saifiyah Campus Competition Presentation

    Final presentation to the Al Jamea tus Saifiyah competition jury for the master plan of their campus in Nairobi.

  • Case Study: Seaside's Quincy Place

    An analysis of how Quincy Place would fit into the fabric of Seaside.

  • Mission Meridian Village

    Stefanos Polyzoides discusses housing design in the context of neighborhoods, with Mission Meridian Village in South Pasadena as his backdrop.

  • Housing Fabric as Urban Form

    An analysis of the damaging consequences that the Modernist movement has had on our cities, with a call for a New Urbanist-based approach to housing.

2011

2010

  • Density

    Density is a planning metric that describes the spatial and physical dimensions of crowding in human settlements.

2009

2008

  • Form-Based Codes

    Foreword to Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers by Daniel G. Parolek, AIA, Karen Parolek and Paul C. Crawford, FAICP (Wiley 2008)

  • The Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

    A set of operating principles for human settlement that reestablishes the relationship between the art of building, the making of community and the conservation of our natural world.

2007

2005

  • The Five Los Angeleses

    Since its founding in 1781, our great city, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, has been visioned, designed and built four times. However, with each successive layer of its development razed and little of the cumulative evidence remaining, the myth has flourished that Los Angeles has no history.

  • LA's Sharp Turn From Sprawl

    Beginning in the early 1990s, the planning and development culture of Southern California began to shift away from sprawl. This was not accomplished by a sudden reversal of citizen attitudes, political climates and professional practices. It was instead induced by a variety of trends, slowly and steadily leading the region toward a more positive view of its culture, its livability prospects and its financial outlook.

  • Streets, Blocks & Buildings

    The form of the New Urbanism is realized by the deliberate assembly of streets, blocks and buildings.

  • On Campus-Making in America

    The American campus-making tradition is an invaluable source of coherence, the source of many wondrous future projects, and a guarantee for the survival of the American university as an institution of coherence and meaning.

2003

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    A analysis of Tucson's early history and the wanton destruction to the city brought about by misguided urban renewal.

  • Giancarlo De Carlo

    Introduction to the 2003 Seaside Prize

2002

  • The Bungalow, the Street and the Court

    Traditional Elements of a California Architecture & Urbanism

  • Streets and Buildings

    In the work of the New Urbanism, we start with the premise that buildings and the space between (streets and squares) must be a balanced ensemble of pavement, streetwalls, green and building walls.

  • HOPE 6

    The history of public housing in our country is filled with noble intentions, as it is littered with the unintended consequences of public policy.

  • The Plazas of New Mexico

    The idea of the plaza in human history is born and developed under a number of different impulses: an expression of the power of the state to define a place for public life, through a singular, monumental architectural enclosure.

  • Greeting by the Chairman of the Board, Miami, CNU 10

  • The Congress for the New Urbanism

    The suggestion has been made that this gathering be called The Seaside Tapes, giving appropriate remembrance and credit to ‘The Charlottesville Tapes’ meeting of fifteen years ago in Virginia.

  • The Charter of the New Urbanism

    The Charter of the New Urbanism, about which I would like to speak this evening, has been an integral part of New Urbanism since the earliest discussions about what this movement would stand for and how it might be organized.

2001

2000

  • If I Were a Young Architect

    If I were a young architect, I would find it daunting to access the values supporting the practice of a contemporary Architecture.

  • The Charrette Process

    The charrette is a method of planning, which we have adopted and developed to support our traditional planning practice.

  • Neighborhood, District, and Corridor

    Concentrations of civic, institutional, and commercial activity should be embedded in neighborhoods and districts, not isolated in remote, single-use complexes. Schools should be sized and located to enable children to walk or bicycle to them.

  • In Praise of Bungalows

    Sprawl builders and developers call them ‘product’.

1999

  • From Zoning Codes to Development Codes

    Conventional zoning was meant to promote the health and prosperity of the public by regulating zones of exclusive use; in practice, however, appropriate use became much less important than the entitled amount of gross usable space and the physical envelopes of buildings.

1996

  • Charter of the New Urbanism

    The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s built heritage as one interrelated community building challenge.

1994

  • Downtown in the Twentieth Century

    Downtown Los Angeles has been the historic center of the Southern California region since its inception and Bunker Hill one of its pivotal constituent parts. The development and redevelopment of Bunker Hill in the last one hundred-odd years, provides a special opportunity to observe the process through which the Architecture and Urbanism of Los Angeles was developed during various phases of the city's growth.

  • The Third Los Angeles

    Exhibition at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1994

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