Thoughts on Greening Up large sites from Berkeley Group’s CEO Rob Perrins A bird’s eye view of our towns and cities reveals the degraded state of nature within today’s urban landscapes. Street trees, greens and ponds have been lost, squeezed, damaged and fragmented. And urban communities now suffer nature’s absence in a multitude of ways. […]

This article by John Massengale is reprinted with permission from New York Daily News. The powers-that-be at Pennsylvania Station have new ideas about the future of the important gateway to New York. But look at what they do rather than what they say. When you go down the escalator between the NJTransit hub and the Long Island […]

Britain’s architectural landscape offers much to celebrate, but it is in a fragile state and, even if the prognosis may be improving, its future health cannot be taken for granted. We face a choice as to which way we move forward with the new development our growing population needs. On the one hand there is […]

Growing up in New York City, I took for granted the vibrancy and community that results from dense, walkable neighborhoods, beautiful mixed-use buildings, and effective public transport. As a young adult, I resented the rarity of these features in other American places and found a similarly rich urban life in London. In mid-May, eager to […]

Alexander Boys Smith applies the theory of Christopher Alexander’s pattern language to the architecture of Leafcutter Ants. In 1977 the architect and theorist Christopher Alexander published his seminal work, A Pattern Language. It set out 253 “patterns”, physical ways in which humanity tends to solve the perennial problem of how to live alongside others in […]