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 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 ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is beginning to shape decisions about the physical environment in ways most people never see directly. Algorithms now assist in evaluating proposals, modeling infrastructure ...

While many architects have long clung to the old “form follows function” adage, form follows brain function might be the motto of today’s advertisers and automakers, who increasingly use high-tech ...

The building materials that are used to construct our homes absolutely make a difference to our human and planetary health. And while we can pick up a bag of chips or box of cereal and read the ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian ran a piece on the distressing condition of the Make It Right homes in New Orleans. Wilfred Chan’s article was based, in turn, on an essay written by Judith Keller, an ...

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 ...