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February 2002

Features

The Kids are Alright

by opening the doors of design studios to urban teens, the Worldstudio Foundation's mentoring program is changing lives.

Not Your Daddy's Caddy

With the launch of the Cien concept car, Cadillac celebrates its centenary by looking to the future.

Meet the Other Albert Speer

His father was Hitler's star architect--but his buildings are deeply humanistic. He can't get work in Berlin--yet his firm is one of the biggest in the world. His name is notorious--and still you've never heard of him.

Permanent Vacation

To high rollers yearning for both adventure and security, the world's first city at sea is the perfect address.

Paradise Regained

As Crystal Cove, California, changes, a life-long visitor asks: can places like these really be owned?

Soft Sell

In Paris, automakers are learning there are limits to pure branding.

The Timeless Temple

Come the year 3000, will the only standing example of contemporary architecture be a Buddhist monument in Colorado?

The Gardener's Shed

Suman Sorg's house for landscape architect James van Sweden finds inspiration in chicken coops, garden walls, and cinder block.


Departments

Notes from Metropolis A Time for Civic Activism.

The Metropolis Observed A crash pad for filmmakers; deciding the fate of the WTC site; urban pedagogues share the knowledge; what RISD's got in store; a consul's residence that speaks Swedish; Salt Lake City gets physical.

Perspective: The Enduring Power of the Old Urbanism Roberta Brandes Gratz extols the virtues of New York's unique brand of Old Urbanism.

In Production: The Thin Man Pedro Dias's very thin chair.

Far Corner: Head for the Hills

America has always harbored the illusion that life can be made perfectly safe.

Productsphere: True Green New sustainable building products make it easy being green.

In Review
Christopher Hawthorne on Monuments and Memory at the National Building Museum.; Ken Coupland with our monthly review of Web design and resources.

Up & Coming Upcoming events and conferences.

Reference Page More information on people and places covered in this issue.

Ben Katchor Plate Glass.

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