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An obscure section of the New York City Charter could make equitable and inclusive development a reality.
They understand that cities are not collections of zoning regulations, but living landscapes.
Sometimes, FDNY fights itself—and the city—instead of fires.
There’s lots of content out there about buildings and designers. Does any of it really connect?
Landscape architect and activist Billy Fleming discusses his new book, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions.
Immortality can exist within the building itself, or within an idea that the building carries forward.
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from the bottom up.
Or, when the first image looks smarter than the designer...
We need to stop erecting single-use buildings, architecture’s equivalent of the plastic shopping bag.
For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised benefits of development projects.
John Massengale and Victor Dover have revised their classic book on street design, vitally improving its organization and potential impact.
Even a small Maine village is not immune to the troubles of our times.
Yes, but it requires patience, dedication, and cooperation among communities, businesses, regulators, and local governments.
Vanity projects, corruption, and cultural blind spots are undermining communities.
Mayor Mamdani must appoint members to this organization that are aligned with his larger agenda.
For those of us concerned with the Crescent City’s survival, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can be saved only if it first accepts that it might not be.
A lush setting that reflects a lifetime of memories, relationships, cultural traditions, and journeys.
How the 17th century Amsterdam house turned a battle against water into the modern home.
It was a moment that transcended sports, offering lessons for a collective future.
A conversation with former Chicago Tribune architecture critic.
A conversation with Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey.
Corruption in Washington and on Wall Street helped create the problem. Architects are still feeling the pain.
The university has the opportunity to reconnect architectural education with its own tradition of intellectual diversity and historical inquiry.
The cost of the auto-centric suburb: the address may be real, but the community isn’t.
The profession’s “modern” paradigm forbids the revival of past patterns, but new science is revealing that traditional designs embody centuries of accumulated wisdom.
Architecture and design education is being fundamentally altered.
Living automobile-free in America is not for the faint of heart.
Common in Europe, this urban form offers numerous benefits to people, neighborhoods, and cities.
The Midwest and the Rust Belt are leading the way in forward-thinking approaches to public space.
The question isn’t whether speculative pricing should be siphoned away, but whether it will happen through policy or crisis.