Although it has some flaws, a new book laudably surveys the best of contemporary contextual design across the U.S.

Because FDNY is slower than any other municipality to approve changes, the newly created ADU program will not increase legal ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has committed to equitable and inclusive policies in his administration, giving us hope that planning and development might finally be based on community needs ...

For the past 30 years, I have been educating urban planners on the way Latinos are transforming the U.S. urban landscape—or, as I call it, Latino Urbanism. I have had some success. But I’m beginning ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Like any good tactical urbanism project, it’s been an iterative process. It’s also important to note from a mayoral leadership and staff perspective, there was strong alignment several years ago that ...

I think it took such a long time because AIA was scared of it. When you looked at the reasons they gave over the years for not doing it—too complicated, potential antitrust concerns, and what have you ...

Unfortunately, many residents in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades will not return to rebuild their homes after the recent tragic fires there. As private developers circle the devastation, the time ...

Our civilization has lost both a pillar and a buttress—one a brave, brilliant uncompromising, architect-Krier; the other a warm, funny, generous, friend and mentor Leo. Krier’s fate was to deflect the ...