Current playgrounds for children are stultifying and unimaginative. Children need to be able to create and manipulate their environment. (RA)

The first student housing at the University of Urbino (Italy), built in the early 1960s, served as a guide to changes in the overall organization of additional housing constructed a decade later. (Author/MLF)

Streets in European cities have an esthetics, an urbaness and a pleasurable humaneness that their American counterparts lack. The American street will change only when our concept of the city itself has changed. (Author)

For over a quarter of a century architect Giancarlo de Carlo has been designing and carrying out a master plan to revitalize the historic city of Urbino (Italy) and the University of Urbino. A convent built in the 16th century was converted to a new law school. (MLF)

Giancarlo de Carlo designed a low-income housing project and an art school to symbolically terminate town expansion along a ridge north of the walled city of Urbino (Italy). (Author/MLF)

School of education facilities at the University of Urbino (Italy), originally an 18th-century convent and chapel, are organized around an open courtyard and a semicircular lecture-theatre hall. Open to the community are the theater, a cinema, and a cafe. (MLF)