Landscape architect and activist Billy Fleming discusses his new book, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy ...

History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from ...

Both have survived, on their own terms, for roughly two millennia—which means permanence was never really about the material ...

The design professions should therefore be careful about the way AI is absorbed into schools and firms. If AI is treated ...

In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath of the South Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing an estimated 60,000 residents and gutting one of the most economically diverse urban ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Nicholas Lemann wrote the first widely read book about the “Great Migration”—the movement between 1916 and 1970 of more than 6 million African Americans from poverty and ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...