The Trump administration’s actions are slowing, and possibly undoing, progress toward repairing scorched communities.

These urban family homes, I soon learned, were made possible by the perimeter block (aka courtyard block)—a building form ...

Changes to the White House have a long history of controversy, but this new project has some inscrutable details.

A coupl e of weeks ago my friend Kira Gould, the architecture and design super-connecter, sent me an email saying, in essence, This looks new and interesting, maybe you should talk to this guy? The ...

Urban planners take pride in knowing, not feeling, communities. Emotion is generally not part of their toolkit. In fact, it is often actively resisted. Most planners are trained to work in an abstract ...

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 ...

I am by no means an expert on public-private partnerships. But for about 10 years, as the University of California Berkeley’s campus planner and then campus architect, I watched these developments ...

On a fine sunny afternoon in late winter, two New York City horse-drawn carriage drivers (sans passengers) sidled along next to each other on Central Park’s East Drive. “In what used to be the Whitney ...

No technological advance can match the power, memory, and creativity of the human brain.