There is growing interest in bottom-up models of design, organizing, and policymaking, timed with a forced retreat of ...

They will never be the same after Notre Dame. During almost half a century as a historical architect I have worked with, and ...

The New York City Council finally passed the Adams administration’s plan for the “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” (COYHO ...

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John King’s tale of two cities is the story of two distinct public processes: San Francisco’s famously fractious culture, vs. Chicago’s ruthless top-down model of Mayor-as-last-and-final-word. John ...

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The proposal has a number of excellent ideas that most progressive housing advocates will embrace. But we all know that the “significantly increased funding” it relies on is not going to materialize.

Ever open to change and a challenge, in September 1983, I donned the cloak of the newly anointed urban design critic of the Los Angeles Times to principally cover architecture. But also planning, ...

In the months prior to the recent presidential election, the public didn’t hear much from either side about climate change, even as the planet is now on track to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 ...

One of the best ways to discover a place is simply to get lost in it. Fortunately, this is easy to do in Marseille. Compared to Paris, the street patterns of Marseille seem indecipherable, lending the ...

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