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Urban design

Mushrooms

What nature can teach us about sustainability and innovation

Arts

While humans construct our physical spaces based on individual preferences and then mitigate the consequences later, nature inherently adopts flexibility as a cornerstone of design.

Workers collect material to be recycled and reused for reconstruction, under the supervision of the United Nations Development Programme in government-controlled Homs, Syria.

Syria’s concrete-block architecture contributed to its unraveling

Conflict

Nature in the City: Redesigning the Granite Garden

Better, Greener Real Estate

The World

Restoring Ground Zero

New Urbanism

Host Steve Curwood speaks with Elizabeth Plater Zyberk, Dean of the School of Architecture of the University of Miami, about the New Urbanist movement and the planning and design it promotes to combat suburban sprawl.

The World

Urban Planning and the Environment

Lifestyle & Belief

Americans are beginning to rethink whether suburban communities are environmentally sustainable. Joining The Takeaway is James Howard Kunstler, one of the urban thinkers gathering in Denver this week for the Congress for New Urbanism.

The World

Riding the Rails: Upgrading Transportation in Denver

Development & Education

Continuing our series on the New Urbanism, Matt Dellinger joins The Takeaway to talk about the city’s light rail project and the attempt to design and define new communities.

The World

Waiting for the Train: A City Safari in Denver

Conflict & Justice

Matt Dellinger, transportation writer, joins The Takeaway to talk about how the American city and surrounding suburbs are changing. ?New urbanists,’ pushing for walkable, mixed-use communities, are gathering in Denver for the Congress on New Urbanism.

The World

Developing a Standard for Green Neighborhood Design

Environment

Sophie Lambert (U.S. Green Building Council) discusses the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system. It could change how developers and local governments can work together to create environmentally-sound neighborhoods. On Living on Earth.