How Urban Should Your City Be? - What ‘urban’ does not mean, to me, is tolerating crime, incivility or trash. by Alex Marshall The New York Observer July - 2001 As the May

Teaching New Urbanism - BY ALEX MARSHALL FOR OCTOBER 1997 ISSUE METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Every July for the past few years, architect Andres Duany had taught a three-day

When The New Urbanism Meets An Old Neighborhood - by Alex Marshall This article first appeared in Metropolis May, 1995 East Ocean View in Norfolk, Virginia, is a neighborhood on death row, awai

The Demolition Man - by Alex Marshall This article first appeared in Metropolis MAY 1995 Metropolis writer Alex Marshall spoke to Andres Duany about his role in t

Coney Island: The Train is The Thing - by Alex Marshall Metropolis Magazine August/September issue, 2001 Today’s Quiz: What magnificent hall of marble, iron and glass, built about 1

Those Old Rules Can Come In Handy. Just ask James Bond. - WINE COLUMN First Published in PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE SEPT. 23, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL Knowing and paying attention to the old rules can come i

Searching For The Heart Of Darkness - BY ALEX MARSHALL WINE COLUMN FOR PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE JAN. 11, 2001 The fluid in the glass was black and dark, as if someone had emptied out h

Typing For Non-Conformists - The Dvorak alternative keyboard is a boon for the aching hand. BY ALEX MARSHALL I'm writing this essay in a different language. It's called

Romance Novel - To A Man - Reads Like Female Porn - Published: Thursday, March 3, 1994 Section: DAILY BREAK - page B1 Source BY ALEX MARSHALL, STAFF WRITER My JOURNEY into romance novels began w

Who Gets the Favors? - The Virginian-Pilot Monday, July 19, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL New ways of looking how we grow and develop are rare. But I think I've found one.

Don't Let Kirn Library Fly Away - Monday, August 16, 1999 COLUMN FOR: The Virginian-Pilot BY ALEX MARSHALL At the end of the movie Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman pleads with Humphre

A Sweet Neighborhood In San Antonio: King William - BY ALEX MARSHALL SEPT. 5, 1996 Metropolis Magazine. The fat man in the Budweiser T-shirt and shorts gawking up at the Moorish inspired arche

Cities Back From The edge - New Life For Downtown Roberta Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz There are two ways to try to revive an old downtown, says Roberta Brandes Gratz. O

Greater Norfolk: Why Not? - By Alex Marshall For Port Folio Magazine Now I've just cut my own throat, Mayor Paul Fraim said sheepishly. The Norfolk leader's fearful v

Whither Virginia Beach? - FOR PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL Virginia Beach. The promised land. It glistens in the sun, a shimmering me

The Savannah College of Art and Design - July 10, 1995 METROPOLIS MAGAZINE BY ALEX MARSHALL Savannah is a city of symmetry. It has straight streets, square squares - columns of sprea

A Path Not Taken - BY ALEX MARSHALL COVER STORY PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE Sometimes I like to mull over the choices we have taken as a region and then, in a masochis

Old Resort City Of Virginia Beach Now More Welcoming - FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1993 by Alex Marshall When was the last time a city offered you a seat? If your town is like most towns, not recently. The

New Suffolk Courthouse: Will it Revive Downtown? - By Alex Marshall For The Virginian-Pilot SUFFOLK -- This handsome new courthouse of brick and stone that sits on Main Street is one answer to

Urban Renewal in Norfolk - What Was Lost: A lot. What Was Gained: Not Much. BY ALEX MARSHALL Tuesday, August 10, 1999 The 1950s was about new stuff, not old stuff