The DesignUSA exhibition from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum celebrates ten years of the Museum's National Design Awards program. The National Design Awards program was founded in order to "celebrate contemporary American design and to increase national awareness of design through education and promotion of excellence and innovation." The exhibition is organized according...

The High Line, which runs 1.45 miles along a disused railroad line on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, is one of those successful urban projects that brings beauty to a neighborhood. Funded entirely through private donors and drives, the aerial greenway provides a park-like space where trains used to rumble through with cars full of frozen turkeys and coal for power plants. The site is...