Because FDNY is slower than any other municipality to approve changes, the newly created ADU program will not increase legal ...

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 the bottom up.

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

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inflation-adjusted price of residential land in the U.S. quadrupled between 1975 and 2006. By 2025, New York City’s land values were estimated at $2.84 trillion. Manhattan’s land alone is valued ...

When people think about forward-thinking approaches to public space and landscape architecture, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are not often the first places that come to mind. More familiar images of ...

America is experiencing a loneliness epidemic, as then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in May 2023. His groundbreaking report offered a six-pillar plan for how America needs to respond in order ...

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 ...

Water is not a passive element but a living intelligence. Water moves dynamically—swelling with the tides daily, rising with the moon monthly, replenishing the land through seasonal floods, ...