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 ...

For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised ...

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music’s facade of weathering steel is made of American steel, which is majority ...

For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised benefits of development projects. For too long, it has been up to residents and ...

John Massengale and Victor Dover have revised their classic book on street design, vitally improving its organization and potential impact.

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 ...

Since I don’t gamble, my favorite parlor game when I visit Las Vegas is to imagine the next themed hotel-casino that MGM or Sands is going to dream up. The Katmandu? The Bali? The Zanzibar? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans go to extreme effort to build things. The monumentality of the Pyramids, the complexity of Stonehenge, the glories of Rome—all of these are timeless manifestations of our fundamental need to ...