urban design

Despite a lot of hype leading into the summer, we haven't seen many streets closed down to car traffic during the pandemic. Many businesses have been…

What does a "just city" look like when it comes to urban design? It's a question Toni Griffin of the Harvard Graduate School of Design explores in her…

How are race, culture, and architecture connected? The question is the focus of an upcoming presentation at the University of Rochester led by Bryan C.…

The suburbs are often left out of conversations about modernizing transportation systems and environmental goals. But as City Lab recently pointed out,…

"What if everything we did in our cities had to be great for an eight year old and an 80 year old?" That's a question urbanist Gil Penalosa regularly…

Will the plan to move RBTL’s proposed performing arts center to Main Street help revitalize Rochester’s downtown? It’s a question local urbanists are…

Has urbanism become too mean? That's exactly what some local urbanists feel, and they're looking for ways to improve their tactics. Mocking someone for…

As city leaders and community members continue to debate the future of downtown development, some are looking to Rochester’s waterways as an asset in that…

We talk about urban rebirth in upstate cities. Arian Horbovetz is a photographer and writer who has been traveling across the state to highlight the…

Sam Schwartz is probably the leading expert on traffic in the country, and he happens to be the guy who coined the term "gridlock."Schwartz has a new book…