The Friendship Village group had the charge of advising a large-scale land developer on directions for promoting sustainability in the plans for a 210 acre multi-use project in south Fulton County, Georgia. Their work ...

Ben Ledbetter grew up in the South, took a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Auburn University in 1972, and after apprenticeships with Harry Wolf in North Carolina and Robert Hecht and Ed Burdeshaw in Georgia, returned ...

A discussion about the Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal, a ground-breaking transportation project in downtown Atlanta from those directly involved in the different aspects of the project.

Georgia Tech architecture alumnus Michael Arad’s memorial to those killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, received rave reviews. "Reflecting Absence” is a serene, public space for collective contemplation and ...

We all want to live in a healthy community. Each of us has his or her own image of what such a community should look like. That image is shaped, in part, by our reaction to the communities in which we now live or used to ...

The surface parking lot was a key element in the destruction of traditional public space. It fragmented the fabric of traditional cities, prompting the sprawl of twentieth century cities and suburbs. The automobile ...

While Georgia Tech grads have been shaping the buildings of Atlanta since the early 20th century, the College’s significant impact on urban design in metro Atlanta is a more recent phenomenon. Atlantic Station and the ...

Distinguished alumnus Jerome M. Cooper (BS Arch 1952, B Arch 1955) will discuss his journey, from the questions learned in school to making cities.

Freeways have had a strong influence not only on the urban transportation but also on downtown areas both physically and socially. Certainly, they have extended the commuting limits of the city and made lower land costs ...

In the domain of architecture and planning, the space allocation problem (SAP) is a general class of computable problems which is employed by numerous design processes to assist in the generation of spaces of a layout and ...