Sep 16, 2024 · Newsletter. Get smart and engaging news and commentary from architecture and design’s leading minds.

Jan 18, 2023 · Covid has been particularly hard on cities: downtown business districts are still struggling due to the shift to remote work; some cities have seen population declines; and crime has spiked virtually everywhere. In addition, the pandemic pushed more people into cars, setting back the safe streets movement. After years of progress, cities like New York City saw big increases in pedestrian deaths.

Jan 25, 2022 · Urbanism trends come and go: Broadacre City, Radiant City, EcoCity. Yet the “ 15-Minute City ” concept—which implies having all necessary amenities within a short walk, bike ride, or public transit trip from one’s home—has demonstrated stickiness not just as an idea, but as a powerful tool for action, from Paris to Seoul, Bogotá to Houston.

Jan 20, 2025 · Beyond the devastation of the thousands of homes in the singular coastal city of Malibu is the palpable fear among residents that the Palisades Fire has also laid waste to the community’s genii locorum, or “local genius”—its evanescent quality of soul.Disdaining the cliché of being a Beverly-Hills-by-the sea hideaway for celebrities and the one-percenters, local denizens and neighbors ...

Jan 15, 2025 · This past fall, I led a graduate design studio at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture in which students used AI to develop innovative, repeatable, and affordable housing solutions.. A few things about this studio cohort: None of the students had opted in. They were not part of the competitive lottery system but were, instead, assigned the course by the school.

May 30, 2024 · The whining of architects is futile.The stick-frame-over-podium building—the so-called 5-over-1—is here to stay. The Box, as I like to refer to it, utilizes the hybrid technology of a concrete-and-steel base below wood-frame construction, and is …

Dec 18, 2024 · Isaac MacDonald is a consultant and writer with a focus on systems change and narrative. He holds an Urban Studies degree from Brown University, where he founded the Urban Journal, and was a fellow with Venture for America (2015) and New Leaders Council (2021).

Sep 25, 2020 · Robert Hart recently wrote a compelling response to my 2017 Common Edge article “ We Shape Buildings, But Do Buildings Really Shape Us? ” I attended Robert’s session at the AIA’16 convention in Philadelphia, “Neuroscience, Evolution, Ecology: A New Look at Humanism in Architecture.”

Jan 7, 2025 · The ability to park a private vehicle on a city residential street for free, indefinitely (subject to moving from time to time for street cleaning) seems to be a God-given right for all New Yorkers. This right will not be given up without rioting in the streets, a battle that few politicians are eager to take on. But the fact is, free parking has got to go.

Aug 8, 2023 · What we build can be metaphoric—often intentionally, sometimes subliminally. But architecture is seldom the intentional commentary of architects, crafting symbolism; more often it is a direct reflection of its time and the culture that made it. The 20th century was marked by a flowering of architectonic personalization.