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

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

Single-use plastic bags are the urban tumbleweed of many cities around the world. They clog storm drains, whirl in the wind, and get caught in branches like dystopian ornaments. On Amazon, $20 buys ...

The auditorium at the CUNY School of Law was packed. More than 100 Long Island City residents—concerned with public school capacity and playground space, with pedestrian safety, artist and small ...

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 ...

I knew him a bit as a community organizer, and then more when he joined the state legislature. But the funny thing is, when it was first proposed, I wasn’t a fan of it at all. Right around the time we ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing 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 ...

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 ...

Getting rid of my car has been a long-term goal of mine, one I finally achieved a few months ago after moving back to what seems to be America’s only truly walkable city (more on that later). Most ...

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 ...

The science behind how our physical environment makes us feel is fascinating. Decades of research in fields like neuroscience and environmental psychology show that design engenders a response in ...