The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions ...

The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions in value.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. For me, this local event marked the beginning of the Latino transformation of the American landscape. When it occurred, however, I was ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the early 1950s, a wide, sloping plain at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northwest India was cleared of over 50 agrarian villages. From that newly blank slate rose Chandigarh, a city conceived ...

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, ...

In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote that the U.S. was becoming “an ...

A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

The recent death of President George H.W. Bush occasioned assessments of his administration’s legislative achievements, one of which was the far-ranging Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil ...