Architects who begin this process today will be best poised to take advantage of automated permitting as more and more ...

The city’s most recent neighborhood plans that are creating new mixed-use, mixed-income communities include the Gowanus ...

Olmsted did not know a work-life balance. He continuously worked himself into a state of exhaustion and was often quite ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Every city needs someone to observe it, sketch it, master its history, and insist that its strengths be defended and reinforced. Sometimes the person who plays this role comes from the other side of ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

Today we know R. Buckminster Fuller primarily through his oeuvre of iconic objects and ideas created over the arc of a nearly 90-year life. Born in the last decade of the 19th century, Fuller lived ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

Since the publication of Robert D. Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community in 2000, a growing body of research has focused on the decline of civic and social engagement ...