Karrie Jacobs

Residents of the River City have nothing to feel inferior about.

How do you mandate superior “design” or even “beauty” in a planning document?

For the better part of a decade, Dallas has been aggressively remaking its downtown.

Even when MoMA is tackling real issues, its obsession with image manages to obscure some of its most important content.

The state of New Jersey, addicted to casino revenues, reinvests in a struggling Atlantic City.

A visit to a cardboard-box factory has our columnist thinking about the future of manufacturing.

Although today it seems as natural as air, Manhattan’s system of numbered streets is actually a visionary piece of urban planning.

The word “urban” is in the midst of a cultural makeover.

An obscure zoning variance has allowed Occupy Wall Street protesters to camp out in a park owned by real estate developers.

Detroit’s Mayor Bing might learn something from the urban homesteaders descending on his city.

A new exhibition explores the great flow of information traveling between physical places and electronic ones.

The beleaguered Connecticut city is showing signs of real life.

Our columnist gets a tour of Manhattan’s newest addition to the high-end, high-rise rental market.

A recent series of negative articles about New York’s transportation commissioner has our columnist crying foul.

While we may have rejected the box as the standard architectural form, we’re more dedicated to it than ever.

A new exhibition on the American factory asks some provocative questions about the future.

Are airports really the key to 21st-century economic development?

On a recent trip, our columnist found a real gap between the city’s cultural values and its built environment.

Two recent controversies demonstrate that in New York proximity is a very relative matter.

A proposed Senate bill contains some of the most progressive ideas in urban planning today. The catch? The legislation doesn’t quite mandate anything.

For today’s students, the idea of urban beauty proves both elusive and downright confusing.

The latest Triennial is long on good intentions but short on sex appeal.

The borough plays host to a manufacturing revival that combines high tech with a decidedly green sensibility.

It took a trip to MIT’s new media lab to realize that the era of the computer screen may be over.

Local people, using local materials, may be the best solution for the ravaged country.

Is James Cameron’s blockbuster beautiful? No more than Grand Theft Auto.

There’s a connection between the bag holding our columnist’s morning newspaper and the recent global climate summit.

The curious route of the Las Vegas Monorail is the product of an equally bizarre planning and development process.

The neighborhood once home to flophouses and the Salvation Army becomes a target for development.

The recent restoration of the Darwin D. Martin House, in Buffalo, raises some vexing questions about authenticity.