The IBX, New York City’s biggest transit expansion since World War II, could unlock tens of thousands of homes and billions in value.
Drawing is deeply intimate, a personal relationship one forms with the “subject.” By working the matter—inscribing the line ...
Queer and Marginalized Histories of Downtown Los Angeles tour took me through many of my old haunts and told a very different ...
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 ...
Architecture never leads culture; it expresses who we are, when we are. And we’re in the middle of a collapse of 20th century institutions and hope. Our politics is reactionary and thought-adverse.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...