Slate

Suburban single-family homes don industrial chicness inspired by the urban loft but delivered with the trappings of suburbia.

Slate's architecture critic looks at Celebration -- Disney's controversial town -- as it celebrates it's 10-year anniversary.

Daniel Gross compares retail giants Costco and Wal-mart with John Kerry and George W. Bush.

The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it.

The newly-published Phaidon Atlas reviews 1,052 buildings, includes 7,000 images, and weighs in at 824 pages.

NY Gov. George Pataki uses the Freedom Tower to advance his campaign, despite major uncertainties.

A brief history of the evolution of restaurants and retail.

Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti offers an honest and fascinating weeklong diary about his life as a politician in the big city.

A new fully automated parking garage stores cars efficiently and effortlessly.

Architectural styles in NYC have gone from lavish to bland and back again.

A new San Diego baseball stadium appears to live up to its economic development promises.

In the battle for American's 'auto soul', the Prius is a surprising winner over the Hummer.

Government promotion of home ownership leads to segregated neighborhoods.

The futuristic Jetsons-era technology of monorail systems isn't just for Disney nostalgia or Simpsons' parodies. Monorails are actually viable urban transit alternatives to light rail and subways.

Slate presents a slide show demonstrating various aesthetics of security, from Wurster Hall at U.C. Berkeley to U.S. embassies abroad.

Will Disney-style Urbanism infect the World Trade Center site?

The subtext of the Tahoe case reveals a startling suggestion: land use regulation is prohbitively expensive, and should stop.

Slate's economist-in-residence reviews Justice Stevens' comments on the costs of local government as expressed in the Tahoe Supreme Court decision.

Laurie Kerr suggests that Osama Bin Laden may have had a more personal and architectural reason for attacking the World Trade Center towers.

A collection of editorial cartoons featuring the human transportation device formerly known as "Ginger."