Author: Nir Buras

Nir Buras is a PhD architect and planner with over 30 years of in-depth experience in strategic planning, architecture, and transportation design, teaching, and lecturing. He has worked on East Side Access at Grand Central Terminal, New York; International Terminal D, Dallas-Fort-Worth; the Washington DC Dulles Metro line; the US Capitol and Senate and House Office Buildings in Washington. They have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, local newspapers, and trade magazines. After the last decade of applying in practice the classical method he wrote *The Art of Classic Planning* (Harvard University Press, 2019), as a critique of modern urban design and planning and as a path forward for beautiful, durable urbanism. To learn how we built cities before planning ruined them, Buras toured the world and visited 100 cities to experience firsthand notable examples of urbanism, making him a virtual"doctor of cities" Contact Dr. Buras for more information on Long Term Planning for your community and how to reintegrate beauty and durability in it.
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Seminar on Eye-Tracking with Ann Sussman

Our CPI friend Ann Sussman from HAPI.org is giving a seminar on eye-tracking this week. I’m sure many people will be interested in attending for free. The seminar is on Thu. Apr 28, 2022- 9:00 AM EDT. Link to register- https://bit.ly/3MrwbUw Link to their website- theHapi CPI friend Ann Sussman- https://bit.ly/3MylzUc

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Washington, D.C.’s New Eisenhower Memorial: My Response

This piece was written in response to the Wall Street Journal article, "Monumentally Mediocre," about the construction of the new Eisenhower Memorial in D.C.. The monument cost taxpayers $150 million to construct. Not only is a classical design for the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. monumentally less expensive for the taxpayer, but it is also …

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The Ballad of Port Grimaud: Doing It Right in St. Tropez Bay

The late British architect and urban designer, Gordon Cullen (1914–1994), developed the concept of townscape, an extension of the picturesque English landscape. A term first used in the 1880s within the context of unspoiled English towns, Cullen used it since the early 1950s to define the visual art of town planning.  Cullen maintained that townscape …

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