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Climate Justice Advocate Named One of TIME's Women of the Year

Jacqueline Patterson has dedicated her career to intersectional approaches to systems change and social and environmental justice.

March 4, 2024 - Time Magazine

Stone windcatcher tower that provides natural air flow in Shiraz, Iran

Looking to the Middle East for Cooling Architecture

Cooling mechanisms built into traditional architecture offer lessons for U.S. builders as heat waves grow more intense.

August 7, 2023 - Time Magazine

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The Death of Parking Requirements

More cities and states are recognizing the harmful impacts of minimum parking requirements, which in many cases have accelerated sprawl and raised the cost of housing construction.

October 6, 2022 - Time Magazine

Suburban Rowhouses

Housing Market May Finally Be Cooling Down

The overheated housing market of the last two years is showing signs of slowing down as home sales fall to the lowest levels since the pandemic began.

May 23, 2022 - Time Magazine

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Road Usage Charges Face Staunch Opposition

The resistance to a proposed mileage-based tax in San Diego County highlights the challenges of passing road usage fees.

March 9, 2022 - Time Magazine

Multi-Family Housing

The Problem With Housing Choice Vouchers

Even with new funding proposed in the infrastructure package, voucher recipients face severe challenges in finding landlords that will accept them.

October 11, 2021 - Time Magazine

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America's Residential Segregation is Getting Worse

New research shows growing segregation over the last two decades in the majority of large metropolitan areas.

June 30, 2021 - Time Magazine

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The Race to Preserve America's Black Cemeteries

America's historic Black cemeteries, which have long fallen victim to displacement, relocation, and outright destruction, could have a new ally in the fight for preservation and recognition.

December 22, 2020 - Time Magazine

Public Space Key in Arab Unrest

At the center of ongoing protests and uproar in the Middle East, iconic and historical public spaces hold political clout.

May 20, 2011 - Time Magazine

Fighting The Blight Of Vacant Retail

Time Magazine takes a look at the growing problem of vacant storefronts across the U.S., and what some intrepid souls are doing about it.

October 5, 2009 - Time Magazine

New Urbanism Examined By Time Magazine, Andrés Duany

Time's environmental reporter examines the American neighborhood with help from New Urbanist founder Andres Duany, who comments on suburbia and its carbon footprint, the role of the car, home size, public space, and ratings of green building.

December 24, 2007 - Time Magazine

Manhattan Pipe Explosion Symbolizes U.S. Infrastucture Crisis

The steam pipe explosion in Manhattan is the latest evidence of the coming crisis that infrastructure experts have been warning us about for years.

July 20, 2007 - Time Magazine

City Proposes Rewards For Building Smaller Homes

To curb excessive house sizes, Boulder, Colorado, is offering financial incentives to homeowners not to build out, and penalties for McMansions.

July 19, 2007 - Time Magazine

Is Chicago Serious About Ending Homelessness?

With little progress having been made on Mayor Richard Daley's campaign pledge to end homelessness by 2012, some are wondering if the promise is just a pipe dream, or worse, a political stunt.

May 25, 2007 - Time Magazine

Saving Shanghai's Art Deco Gems

Even with widespread demolition of old buildings to make way for modern towers, the city still has more art deco buildings than anywhere else on earth. A new photo book hopes to inspire the city to preserve its rich architectural legacy.

February 23, 2007 - Time Magazine

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