One of the many side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a new appreciation for how we use – or don’t use – public space. A perfect case study was the Dallas parklet program that the city ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Densification takes different forms; as every city or site is unique, it requires a tailored approach. At the same time, we need to maximize the scarce land that’s available in our existing cities to ...

After the Urban Design Group’s initial establishment by New York City Mayor John Lindsay in 1967, and its subsequent dismantling in 1980 by Mayor Ed Koch, the New York City Department of City Planning ...