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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.
In his new book, Michael P. Murphy reflects on what he’s learned through his work on various buildings.
An excerpt from the new book Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.
The new Trump-backed proposal produces more questions than it answers.
When teaching and learning happen simultaneously, everyone’s perspective widens.
Faster production should not reduce fees: It should change how they’re explained.
The many ways residents and local institutions worked to bring the Crescent City back after a historic natural disaster.
Powerful forces become available when communities are willing to take control of their collective destiny.
What almost happened instead…
The Trump administration’s actions are slowing, and possibly undoing, progress toward repairing scorched communities.
Why and how I became a citizen urban planner and advocate.
Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.
Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.
Milton Shinberg leads the profession back to people through the human sciences.
A longstanding element of the city’s retail is shut out again as the mayor rejects a key reform.
Sam Kaplan Hall recounts his wide-ranging life in a new memoir that contains more than a few great personal stories.
A talk with photographer Stanley Greenberg about his new book documenting the vast infrastructure of the city’s water system.
The connection between designer and user can—wonderfully and painfully—transcend the business of architecture.
Even as he approaches sainthood, the man who “designed Barcelona” defies categorization.
A conversation with Empty Sky co-designer Jessica Jamroz about the still-uncompleted and largely neglected monument.
A talk with Thomas Bates, the renderings guru at VMDO Architects.
A trove of architectural imagery offers a bleak assessment of modern life.
The new mayor creates the Affordable Housing Authority, bringing the power of government to bear on a problem that the private sector has failed to solve.
Local leaders continue to hold on to outdated assumptions about what the city is and could become.
