The result is that many modern buildings have become the architectural equivalent of a plastic bag: cheap and disposable. ...

For too long, it has been up to residents and neighborhood organizations to hold the city accountable for the promised ...

John Massengale and Victor Dover have revised their classic book on street design, vitally improving its organization and ...

When you live in a small town, you never expect its name to pop up in national news—nor, to be honest, do you ever really ...

Yes, but it requires patience, dedication, and cooperation among communities, businesses, regulators, and local governments.

Every profession develops its own dialect, a set of ritual utterances by which its initiates recognize one another and reassure themselves that their labor is meaningful. In architecture, this dialect ...

At its most basic, architecture is an intermediary between the natural environment and humans, who are not particularly well equipped to survive in the world without shelter. “Emerging Ecologies: ...

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger is one of many who have raised their voices in alarm at the way President Trump is proposing to alter and add to the White House. There is much to agree with in his ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

My recent interview on Common Edge with Michael Monti of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) elicited a question from Michael Armstrong, CEO of the National Council of ...

When I started it, I was interested in buses, because not a lot had been written about them as mass transit. They always get overlooked. Rail gets so much attention. I was interested in buses from a ...

In the early 1980s, when I first saw the film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and then read the book, both by William H. Whyte, I was enthralled. I had met Holly, as he was affectionately known, ...