Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.

A century after he was fa tally struck by a tram, Barcelona’s famed Antoni Gaudí is on track to reach heights never achieved by a modern architect. Earlier this year, the late Pope Francis recognized ...

The problem with being a deliberative writer is that pretty much everything has already been penned by the time you’re ready to write about something. Such is the case with the 2021 Chicago ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarde d with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs ...

The term “whack-a-mole” describes a situation where solving one problem piecemeal results in a temporary fix that causes the sudden appearance of an equally vexing problem. This characterizes recent ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...

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 ...

The city reported zero pedestrian deaths on its streets in 2022. Planner Mike Lydon tells us how they did it.

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, ...

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 ...

The master architect “posed fundamental, perennial questions that just don’t go away,” says the editor of a new, lavishly illustrated book.