Articles

The New York Review

• How New York Is Zoning Out the Human-Scale City The New York Review (December 30, 2019)

New York Times

• It Takes a Neighborhood New York Times (Sept 28, 2010)

• O Urban Pioneers! New York Times (Sept 1, 2010)

• Rebirth of a City New York Times (Aug 10, 2010)

• The Big Box on Your Block The New York Times (October 17, 2004)

• From Hell to High Water The New York Times (February 22, 2006)

Common Edge

• New York City Promises Affordability Through Rezoning But Delivers Gentrification Common Edge (March 26, 2021)

• Post-Covid New York and the Rebirth of the Regional City Common Edge (Feb 16, 2021)

• The Ambiguous Urban Legacy of Ed Logue Common Edge (Jan 26, 2020)

• Neal R. Peirce: The Man Who Championed—and Helped Save—the American City Common Edge (Jan  6, 2020)

• Governor Cuomo’s and Mayor de Blasio’s Grovelling to Amazon Demeans New York Common Edge (Mar 7, 2019)

• An Amazon Correction: The City Won—and the Company Isn’t Going Anywhere Common Edge (Feb 18, 2019)

• Will Detroit Ever Fully Recover From John Portman’s Renaissance Center? Common Edge (Sept 7, 2018)

• A Critical Reassessment of John Portman? No, His Buildings Were Resolutely Anti-Urban Common Edge (Aug 28, 2018)

• The Greenwich Village Apartments Created by Jane Jacobs Are Threatened With Demolition Common Edge (Nov 7, 2017)

• What Jane Jacobs and the Founders of the High Line Have in Common Common Edge (Apr 17, 2017)

• How to Prevent the Mauling and Malling of New York Common Edge (Nov 2, 2016)

• More Thoughts on Jane Jacobs from One of Her Closest Collaborators Common Edge (Aug 25, 2016)

Planetizen

• Planners and the Jane Jacobs Conundrum  Planetizen (April 25, 2011)

• Enough With the ‘Enough with Jane Jacobs’ Already!  Planetizen (Jan 24, 2011)

Huffington Post

• Curitiba’s Jaime Lerner Huffington Post (Oct 31, 2013)

• Urban Change to Believe In Huffington Post (Sept 12, 2013)

• A Favela Transformed Huffington Post (Aug 22, 2013)

• Curitiba: An Environmental Showcase Huffington Post (Aug 6, 2013)

• Walking the Walk With Jane Huffington Post (April 30, 2012)

• When Is a Landmark A Landmark? Huffington Post (Jul 30, 2011)

• Stockholm Leads the Way Huffington Post (Jul 7, 2011)

• Landmarking Urban Change in New York Huffington Post (Mar 2, 2011)

• Times Square Development Completed Huffington Post (Jan 4, 2011)

• Saving Shrinking Cities Huffington Post (Aug 4, 2010)

• Westway Changed Transportation History Huffington Post (Oct 13, 2010)

Citiwire

• Organic Renewal: St. Joe’s Story Citiwire ( Jul 5, 2013)

• Grand Central Citiwire (Feb 7, 2013)

• Charity Redux Citiwire (Sept 7, 2012)

• In Shrinking Cities, Preserving Existing Buildings Can Stem The Loss  Citiwire(Jul 20, 2012)

• Hydrofracking and the Rural Future Citiwire (Feb 4, 2012)

• Hydrofracking: The Impacts Continues Citiwire (Jan 28, 2012)

• The Hydrofracking Impact Citiwire (Jan 21, 2012)

• Funding the Grassroots: New ArtPlace Initiative Makes Eminent Sense Citiwire (Sept 24, 2011)

• Stockholm Model Planning Yields Dramatic Results Citiwire (Jun 23, 2011)

• How to Beat the Shrinking Cities Syndrome Citiwire (Apr 29, 2011)

• Rebuilding Detroit The Sane Way, A Block at a Time Citiwire (Dec 26, 2010)

• Upstate New York Revival: Genius or Common Sense Citiwire (Nov 7, 2010)

• Redeveloping an Old City the Right (Thoughtful) Way Citiwire (Jul 16, 2010)

• Demolition a Wrong Answer From Imperiled Neighborhoods Citiwire (Jun 18, 2010)

Articles about New Orleans

• Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake The Lens (Mar 17, 2019)

• Jane Jacobs’ victories against Robert Moses saved a city and also empowered women The Lens (Mar 14, 2018)

• Remembering Bill Borah: Killing a French Quarter expressway was only the start The Lens (Oct 10, 2017)

• What would Jane Jacobs make of our post-Katrina transition from ‘death’ to ‘life’? The Lens (Apr 9, 2016)

• What to do with short-term rentals: legalize and police them? Good luck with that! The Lens (Feb 27, 2016) 

• Holy Cross condo plan: Are we already abandoning post-Katrina reforms? The Lens (May 6, 2014)

• So what if Holy Cross towers defy the zoning code – it’s only the Lower Ninth The Lens (Mar 26, 2014)

• How to Save a Sinking City The Nation (Jun 24, 2013)

• Monumental mistake: Demolishing World Trade Center to build a tourist attraction The Lens (Jun 19, 2013)

• A Biotech Disaster in New Orleans? Citiwire (Mar 24, 2011)

• Why Was New Orleans’s Charity Hospital Allowed to Die? The Nation (May 16, 2011)

• It Takes a Neighborhood New York Times (September 28, 2010)

• New Orleans’ Third Crisis: Suburb-Style Hospital Plan (May 6, 2010)

• Community-Based Progress in Post-Katrina New Orleans Planetizen (Nov 25, 2008)

• In New Orleans’ Mud, A Ward Determined Not To Slip Away Michigan Land Use Institute (Nov 1, 2005)

• What Cities Looking to Shrink Can Learn From New Orleans The Atlantic Cities (Apr 5, 2012)

• New Orleans’ Third Crisis: Suburb-Style Hospital Plan Citiwire (May 6, 2010)​

Other

• Jane Jacobs and the Power of Women Planners   The Atlantic (Nov 16, 2011)

• Making Pittsburgh New by Keeping it Old   The Atlantic (Oct 25, 2011)

• Turning Downtowns from Ratholes to Artists’ Lofts   History News Network (2011)

• Rochester’s Unique Place in the Rustbelt Revival The Atlantic Cities (Jun 15, 2012)

• Livingston Street Battle Frames Debate On Landmarks (Jan 8, 2012)

• Urban Virtues Metropolis Magazine (March 2008)

• The Vacant Building Syndrome The Next American City (Spring 2007)

• Robert Moses Reconsidered: Blight is in the Eye of the Beholder City Limits (Apr 2, 2007)

• Robert Moses Reconsidered: Power and Process Right Now City Limit (Mar 12, 2007)

• Robert Moses Reconsidered: Mostly Right The First Time City Limits (Feb 12, 2007)

• Downtown parking: It is not as bad as it seems Downtown Idea Exchange (Dec 15, 2006)

• The Best Laid Plans Urbanite (May 2006)

• Against the Tide Urbanite (April 2006)

• An Ode to Olmsted in Orange Michigan Land Use Institute (March 9, 2005)

• In the Park With Christo The Nation (March 28, 2005)

• Suburban Retailers Say Hello to Downtown Michigan Land Use Institute (November 22, 2004)

• Density without Disruption Places (Spring 2004)

• Downtowns Grow One Step at a Time Planning Commissioners Journal (Winter 2003)

• Marooned on Culture Island New York Times (June 4, 2003)

• Anthems In The Architecture Michigan Land Use Institute (May 1, 2003)

• The Enduring Power of the Old Urbanism Metropolis (February, 2002)

• A Window Into the Heart of America Michigan Land Use Institute (December 21, 2001)

• After Calamity, New Yorkers Sought Traditional, Intimate Public Places Michigan Land Use Institute (October 24, 2001)

• To Market, To Market Planning Commissioners Journal (Spring 2001)

• Preserving the Urban Dynamic The Nation (April 23, 2001)

• So many buses, so little space New York Daily News (June 7, 2000)

• The Center Holds: Old Black Communities Revived The Wall Street Journal (August 15, 1995)

• Each Town Its Own Face The Wall Street Journal (September 8, 1994)

• Demolition Doesn’t Rebuild Neighborhoods New York Newsday (December 15, 1992)

• Malling the Northeast New York Times Magazine (April 1, 1990)