Krier and Leo know they have done enough. They climb the stone precipice that is Palma Cathedral, pausing at the summit, ...

CannonDesign’s Elisabeth Perrault on her firm’s collaboration with the nonprofit Sunflower Network and Pelli Clarke & ...

In the U.S., interior and exterior spaces are outsize because they can be. In France, high density means less individual ...

Don’t put faith in awards, publications, or PR firms to generate the next project. Instead, demonstrate your value in every ...

It’s hard not to think of Penn Station—the dreary remnant of it still operating today—as the site of some colossal urban planning original sin. When the grand McKim Mead & White terminal was famously ...

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 ...

Dozens of neighborhoods in New York City have been upzoned based on contrived, and even false, claims made by the city, which promised more diversity, affordable housing, minimum displacement, and ...

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 ...

If you had to identify Scott Johnson as an architect in a word, it would be serious, as evinced in his just-published opus, Inside Architecture: A Design Journal (Balcony Press). So when he writes ...

A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European ...

Usually, people shrug off such diametrically opposed urban preferences as “we’re just different,” a meaningless explanation for why U.S. cities cannot become better. But the factual underpinnings tell ...