Fast forward to the present, and home prices have not gone down but up, and people are still desperate to own one, making ...

Water’s absence has fostered urban instability, ecological collapse, and widespread water insecurity. The climate crisis is ...

The house was built for something over $100,000 in 1984 and was cheaper than the condos across town. We built a one-bedroom, ...

Parish priest Daniele Micheletti expressed exasperation at the “procession of people that came to see it instead of listening to mass or praying,” adding, “I don’t understand this fuss. Painters used ...

An artist’s politicized restoration at a medieval church sparks heated debate.

The name “Sunnyside” originated around 1710, when French Huguenots purchased the land and named it “Sunnyside Hill.” After ...

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 ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...

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 ...

The tragedy that struck one of the world’s most recognizable and beloved landmarks offers France a chance to heal after months of civil unrest. As with any unfortunate event, sympathy from a horrified ...

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 ...