How Cities Are Responding to Rising Commercial Rents
The cost of leasing commercial space is soaring in many U.S. cities, and posing an increasing threat to the future of independent businesses, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance finds in a report...
View ArticleA Missing Conversation: Medical Centers and the Built Environment
There's been controversy about the responsibilities of hospitals and medical centers to their communities. But what about their physical form and how it impacts neighbors and patients alike?Publication...
View ArticleWhen Architects Design Video Games
In The Witness, released this year by game designer Jonathan Blow, players embark on independent exploration to discover the world of the game in fragments.Publication Date: Tue, 08/23/2016
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Gainesville Turns Abandoned Industrial Hub Into Innovative Park
After a 20-year quest in Gainesville, FL, a multitude of partners led by the Gainesville CRA restored a brownfield site into Depot Park, a centrally located stormwater park in the city's urban...
View ArticleUp and Running: The Speedy Recovery of Houston's City Hall
On August 25, Hurricane Harvey slammed into the coast of Texas between the small communities of Port Aransas and Port O’Connor. The Category 4 hurricane was soon downgraded to a tropical storm, but it...
View ArticleMap of U.K. Development Types Reveals Wide Open Spaces
A post on the website of the Local Authority of Building Control (LABC) in the United Kingdom has produced a new map that uses high definition satellite images to plot the different kinds of land...
View ArticleMapped: Every Building in the United States
Platforms like Google Maps and Apple Maps may already have every building mapped, in a sense, but this new resource from The New York Times makes it far easier to discern patterns of development,...
View ArticleOn Different Ways to See a Place
Looking forward to 2019, Chuck Wolfe reflects on how time living in London—and exposure to many other places during 2018— has highlighted how the physical shell of the old often frames today's...
View ArticleHow the Green New Deal Could Transform the Built Environment
Two futures may be in store for the country, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan writes.Publication Date: Mon, 06/24/2019
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Friday Eye Candy: New York City, Minus the Cars and People
"The resulting photos show an eerily empty New York, as if someone was strolling through the city on New Years Day, or in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse," reports Simon.Publication Date: Thu,...
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Neighborhood Preference Splits on Partisan Lines
"Republicans and Democrats express sharply different preferences about their ideal communities and house sizes," writes Bradley Jones to explain research from the Pew Research Center.Publication Date:...
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Is it Time to Revive the Pattern Language?
Although virtually everyone uses Wikipedia routinely today, it's remarkable how few know its surprising provenance in the world of planning and architecture.Tags: A Pattern LanguageChristopher...
View ArticleCentering Equity in Climate Adaptation
Resilience as a response to climate is inadequate, argues Matt Shaw. "Instead, we should focus on equity-minded climate adaptation, on structural changes that will reimagine new urban futures under...
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Designing for Social Distance Requires Creative Solutions
Efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus are prompting creative, life-saving design interventions. The past few months have seen the repurposing of buildings and even shipping containers as...
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The Race Barriers of American Cities
Chat Travieso writes about the history of walls and other barriers—fences, barricades, buffer strips—that have been used to segregate communities in cities across the country.Publication Date: Wed,...
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