Cities are where we can make significant impacts, comparatively quickly, to help fight climate change.

A century after he was fa tally struck by a tram, Barcelona’s famed Antoni Gaudí is on track to reach heights never achieved by a modern architect. Earlier this year, the late Pope Francis recognized ...

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 ...

Among the many inequities identified by Zohran Mamdani in his stunning mayoral campaign was housing affordability. He is certainly not the first mayoral hopeful, or indeed mayor, to identify the ...

I am interested in contemporary art because it speaks to us of our times and of ourselves,” the German-Spanish art collector Helga de Alvear once said, “because it creates and develops a language that ...

On a recent visit to Europe, I had the opportunity to visit several new projects in Prague, Czech Republic, with Dalibor Fikr, a senior project manager with PENTA Real Estate, one of the city’s most ...

Last week, I shared some skepticism about yet another round of plans to “revitalize downtown Buffalo.” I want to explain why. It’s not because I don’t want Buffalo to thrive—I love this place—but ...

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.

The new mayor creates the Affordable Housing Authority, bringing the power of government to bear on a problem that the private sector has failed to solve. More ...

Even as he approaches sainthood, the man who “designed Barcelona” defies categorization.

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