The Architect's Newspaper

While many construction and development projects are finding trouble getting funded, sustainable design firms are hanging in there.

Dawanna Williams of Dabar Development Partners discusses the narrower options for mid-sized developers in the current financial climate.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has announced that within the next five years, $5 billion will go to funding 20,000 new affordable homes near public transportation.

A third term for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been sold as a method to save Wall Street, but it's really more important to the city's urban planning, according to this piece from The Architect's Newspaper.

A predicted upsurge of seniors living in New York City within the next 20 years poses new challenges for the city. According to a report by the New York Academy of Medicine, however, good design and planning may be part of the solution.

A handful of EDAW interns have created an ambitious plan for a new park to connect L.A.'s disconnected downtown with lush greenery.

For China, the Olympics represent a struggle between letting people in and controlling what they see and do. This is a problem, writes Andrew Yang, that implicates the Olympics-related architecture in a bad way.

Prefab housing is experiencing a revival of interest among architects and design magazines. But as one realtor puts it, “I just think the whole thing is a false promise."

Two notable large-scale projects in downtown L.A. have not broken ground on time, which many see as a sign of the end of downtown's real estate boom.

Infill lots are now hot property in New York -- and developing them has forever changed the landscape of New York.

Manhattan's malls have been replaced by "vertical retail environments". How will malls evolve in dense urban environments?

Eleven deans share their perspectives on the state of of architectural education.

A behind the scenes look at a TV makeover program featuring the made-for-TV revitalization of an entire town.

Andrew Yang explores New York City's bid for hosting the 2012 Olympics.