What was lost in the process was harder to quantify: the density of small businesses, the overlapping networks of suppliers and customers, the informal economic relationships that give neighborhoods ...

Highlights from Episode 5 of Our Buildings, Our Selves.

On the importance of drawing: “We’re all part of the digital world to some extent, but there’s now an entire generation of ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Nicholas Lemann wrote the first widely read book about the “Great Migration”—the movement between 1916 and 1970 of more than 6 million African Americans from poverty and ...

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 ...

Every architect understands that an ethically challenged client or project can imperil a practice. Perhaps apropos of this: The design for Donald Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom, renderings ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

Can Mayor Mamdani forge a new path forward for New York City and the nation?

Few businesses in the U.S. are regarded with more fondness than mom-and-pop retailers. There’s an “all’s right with the world” quality about owner-run shops that meet a neighborhood’s everyday needs ...

As technology reduces the time needed to complete tasks, firms need to clarify what clients are actually paying for: expertise and judgment, not billable hours. As technology reduces the time needed ...

The Driehaus is about traditional and classical architecture, and I don’t think there’s much interest at, say, Architectural Record in examining those kinds of practices. It’s not considered important ...

As technology reduces the time needed to complete tasks, firms need to clarify what clients are actually paying for: ...