Drawing is deeply intimate, a personal relationship one forms with the “subject.” By working the matter—inscribing the line ...

One of the themes in the book is the leadership of women in some of the biggest fights in New Orleans, integrating schools, ...

Queer and Marginalized Histories of Downtown Los Angeles tour took me through many of my old haunts and told a very different ...

The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions in value.

The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions in value.

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 ...

In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath of the South Bronx to build the Cross Bronx Expressway, displacing an estimated 60,000 residents and gutting one of the most economically diverse urban ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

Lake Tonle Sap is a part of Cambodia’s inland water system that’s connected to the flooded forests that purify water and buffer communities from storms—an important benefit as climate change makes ...

In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote that the U.S. was becoming “an ...

I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads ...