New Songdo City Looks Back at the New World for Older Urban Models
The master plan for South Korea’s New Songdo City is built on Western urban models, hybridized for the developing Asian world. The entire edge city development is oriented along a long, diagonal commercial downtown office core.

Marketing Planning Efforts: Help in New Economy
Planners are urging restrained approach to development
Warren, Michigan’s third largest city, just celebrated its 50th anniversary. As part of a comprehensive planning effort to redefine its downtown, the City of Warren converted 60 suburban acres into a vibrant city center with a new city hall, library, and street system. The new emerging urban district, with plans for mixed-use development, including retail, housing, and offices, is helping redefine the community’s character and view of itself. But in this more cautious economy, Warren planners are also encountering some of the same challenges that are facing many other development efforts. The planners and landscape architects JJR Inc. are working with the town to help realize their vision for their community.

EwingCole’s New Jersey Cancer Center Is Eco-Friendly
EwingCole’s two-story, 39,600-square-foot AtlantiCare Cancer Center in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., is seeking LEED certification. The energy-efficient center will sit on a 25-acre site and is designed to focus patient views on standing groves of pine and oak. The outpatient center will incorporate eco-friendly materials to ensure patient comfort and offer a thematic design for each clinical zone to relate to the surrounding outdoors. The center is expected to open in summer 2009.