At a time when the future of New York's subway system looked bleak, new underground zoning legislation (the first ever) has been enacted. This new law requires buildings constructed near a subway station to provide transit easement space to allow public access to the subway through the building property. (MA)

Opening next September, the Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers in downtown Manhattan, will share space with the telephone company. The architect's adherence to the site's natural shape provides adequate space. (Author/MLF)

The Nathan Marsh Pusey Library is constructed below grade on a site that was too constricted for a building above ground. (MLF)

Arrayed along pedestrian streets are eight interdependent houses that provide 58 units of apartment housing for 220 men and women students at Princeton University. (Author/MLF)

A few miles outside the town of Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, lies Beladala, a farming village of thatch-roofed homes. Beladala and 17 other villages, comprising farms, homesteads, and pastures, are slated to be acquired by Anil Agarwal, a metals-and-mining mogul whose company, Vedanta Resources, has made the 53-year-old…

Parent participation in the construction of a playground is related here. Four criteria were considered in the process: exercise, social interaction, safety and durability, and availability of materials and labor. (DS)

Describes the new campus of Rosemary Hall, a private girls secondary school in Connecticut. The designer applied geometric lines and figures to result in a campus that reflects the spirit of the old school with a new set of circumstances but does not compromise the open-endedness of changing programs and a new progressive spirit. (Author/MF)

The story of the planning of the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California is that of several strong willed, idealistic personalities, who joined forces to produce one of California's largest public examples of environmental design. (Author/MLF)

Brownfields have the potential to be reused as nature preserves or recreation areas. This reuse depends on the public's perceptions of risk and their willingness to support the new uses of the sites. This study examines attitudes about the reuse of large coastal brownfields from local and nonlocal students and the public. The sites include the…

The Park School was designed to fit into and above an outcropping of rocks thus providing varied exterior spaces, reducing the building's scale, and freeing the open spaces for playing fields. (Author/MLF)