What Shanghai visitors notice first is the skyline. The attraction of Shanghai is in its elevated highways, high speed train systems, and metro. As one of the fastest growing cities in the world, it can be highly overwhelming.

As for an economy of consumption and production, "China uses about 50 percent of the world's cement production." So how will residents and tourists take to the Shanghai Urban Exhibition Center? The…

The New Orleans City Planning Commission has created an extensive project for the city which is a five-year plan. The Louis Armstrong Airport is a part of this plan as well with an estimated price tag of $706 million. The total project will cost about 1.1 billion. With a desperate need for street improvements, upgrades for public facilities, libraries, museums, and recreation.

However, they run low on the resources and…

One prominent farmer, John Hantz of Hantz Farms desires to purchase 140 acres of land in Detroit to create the "world's largest urban farm." He believes that the way for advancement in detroit is to return to agriculture, "to its agrarian roots."

This environment could be created by planting trees, roughly 15,000 says Hantz as abandoned land should be returned to the city to generate the taxes from it. Mayor and city councils…

According to the article American Airlines Center Designs, Dallas natives prefer a more nostalgic, historical set for their major centers. However, the new Arena has " freeways and railroad tracks and glittering steel-and-glass skyscrapers." The designers believes this helps tell the past and well as the future of this Dallas monument.

The architect, David Schwarz aims for popularity. He believes that fans will favor this…

I read an article from D Magazine written by urban designer, Patrick Kennedy. It discussed the possibility that in the price range that it cost to build Klyde Warren park, Dallas could have built 3 to 4 more parks in areas more likely needing attention.

The author gives a visual of a highway that runs through deep Ellum that is in need for repairs, which creating a park there would be like killing two birds with one stone.…