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

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 ...

My box of letters from Lou that I describe at the beginning of the book. I really had not looked at them for quite a time. And then when so many books came out about Lou Kahn, I zeroed back in on the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Every profession develops its own dialect, a set of ritual utterances by which its initiates recognize one another and reassure themselves that their labor is meaningful. In architecture, this dialect ...

When the architect and developer John Portman died last December, the somewhat predictable accolades streamed forth—like a waterfall inside one of his celebrated hotels. His iconic structures, with ...

We are excited to announce the launch of a new monthly podcast, Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut ...

Your book argues that the built environment has a profound impact on people’s lives. I agree. And, yet, given the state of architecture today, you wouldn’t know it. Not just with what’s on the ground, ...

This article was originally published in 2013 in The Architect’s Newspaper as a warning that Los Angeles was headed toward a rapidly approaching fiscal breaking point. Nearly 13 years later, the ...

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 ...