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.

Controversies surrounding vanity projects in the Global South have ignited a broader and long-standing debate about the ...

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 ...

Planners are, by nature, patient and cautiously optimistic people. The exigencies of the job practically require it, where timelines are measured not in days, weeks, or years, but often in decades.

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, ...

For the past three decades, YIMBYs and NIMBYs have been fighting pitched battles across the U.S. for the heart and soul of future development, but the housing crisis has only grown worse, especially ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (Norton), is revelatory. It explains how zoning operates in the U.S., both its limitations and dynamic potentials for creating life ...

Back in the day, I used to be a musician and worked in a recording studio. I was also a test engineering intern at a speaker company. And I started McMansion Hell in the summer, between undergrad and ...

When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...