And good risks are hard to come by.” The cops moved in while we were reciting Mourner’s Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the ...

The city is already overloaded with cars, yet it lacks the density needed for transit to work effectively. Moving beyond this ...

A talk with Carol Bebelle, editor of the new book Counting Our Blessings: New Orleans Stories 20 Years After Katrina.

As NYC prepares for Mayor Mamdani’s free buses, officials have a chance to rethink some of the city’s most common public ...

I recently talked to Stasiowski about the emergence of AI, how it will affect architecture’s fossilized business model, and ...

I was just watching a video with a chart that showed how long it took different technologies to get to 100 million users: the telephone, Facebook, and DeepSeek. It was 100 years for the phone, four ...

The reaction to Donald Trump’s proposal to build a new ballroom connected to the east side of the White House has been heated and hostile—a quality it shares with just about every other attempt ...

The first edition of Waterworks [Princeton Architectural Press, 2003] was a follow-up to my first book, Invisible New York [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998]. It was about all kinds of hidden ...

I am the director of visualization. When we landed on this idea, I was tasked with a number of things, the first and foremost being to lead the visualization efforts in our office. In an ideal world, ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

Metrics have been used for years by NIMBYs, YIMBYs, municipalities, and numerous other housing-focused groups to fight for their desired outcomes. But most metrics that are employed are seriously ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...