Anthony Paletta

Anthony Paletta writes the Spaces column for the Wall Street Journal and contributes to The Guardian, Bookforum, Metropolis, The Daily Beast, Architectural Record, and a variety of other publications.

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Development and Construction
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Resilience and Sustainability
Expanding the Usage of New York City’s Governors Island
Since the donation of the 172-acre (70 ha) Governors Island to New York City in 2003, most of the work on the island has focused on expanding its recreational assets. With an impressive amount of parkland now established, a new push is afoot to expand the island’s uses, both recreational and otherwise.
July 21, 2017
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Anthony Paletta
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Resilience and Sustainability
How Stormwater Retention Paid Dividends for Three Sites
From a park in Washington, D.C., to a former department store warehouse in Portland, Oregon, to a Whole Foods site in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, these diverse projects are linked by a common ingenuity in handling stormwater.
July 5, 2017
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Anthony Paletta
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Resilience and Sustainability
Profit- and Market-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Real Estate
While U.S. policies on energy may shift in the coming years, panelists speaking at an event in New York City in February said that no backtracking is in sight regarding the integration of sustainability into the best practices of the real estate industry.
March 9, 2017
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Anthony Paletta
Infrastructure
In Print: Scaling Infrastructure and Infrastructural Monument
Infrastructure was accordingly a rich theme for the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism’s two inaugural conferences, whose proceedings are now available in two intriguing volumes, concerning both the rote realities of appropriate functionality, Scaling Infrastructure, and the possibilities of civic and connective consequentiality, Infrastructural Monument.
September 15, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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Design and Planning
In Print: Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
The transmission of ideas and concepts across wildly different societies is usually a tale of progress; Mitchell Duneier’s Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea is not one of those stories.
September 15, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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Design and Planning
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News
In Print: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
The premise of Geoff Manaugh’s A Burglar’s Guide to the Cityis simple; burglars understand cities, and the buildings that constitute them, better than you do. Manaugh has been exploring a dizzying range of theoretical and esoterically vocational perspectives on the city for well over a decade on his invaluable BLDGBLOG.
August 29, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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In Depth
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Innovation Districts & Corridors
In Print: The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure
The word infrastructure, which originated during the 1920s, was unusual enough to still appear in quotation marks in the Wall Street Journalas late as the 1980s. Henry Petroski’s The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructureis an exhaustive tour of the tremendous variety of built works encompassed by the term.
August 1, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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Design and Planning
Four Concepts Reimagining the Future of Modern Memorials
The competition was intended to “reimagine how we think about, feel, and experience memorials,” eliciting entries that both aim to fill in topics and themes that have not been commemorated and to anticipate those that might merit future attention.
June 30, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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Infrastructure
In Print: Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia
The gleaming white terminal on the cover suggests a book much like many others, outlining a future (and present) of grand planning for the prosperity brought and dispatched via the wonders of air traffic. But this is not that book: it is a fascinating examination of the many elements that such forecasts leave out or overlook.
June 13, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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Design and Planning
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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: Where Are the Women Architects?
Historian Despina Stratigakos’s book is a nuanced effort “to track an unfinished dialogue that has haunted architecture—in a cycle of acknowledging and abandoning its gender issues—for a long time,” as she writes in her introduction.
April 14, 2016
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Anthony Paletta
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