Architecture
A new map shows where privately owned public spaces are located to encourage more public use.
Curbed New York
Urban design media mourned the passing of Robert Venturi this week.
The New York Times
A competition in the San Francisco Bay Area highlights projects considering new ways to design for impending environmental changes.
San Francisco Chronicle
New renderings of two "New York-style" office towers give shape to the $3 billion Water Street Tampa project.
The Architect's Newspaper
A land trust is providing much-needed affordable housing relief after last year’s Hurricane Irma.
Next City
As the number of excessive heat days steadily increases, cities face a range of new challenges. But they are also trying to get ahead of the problem while they still can.
The Washington Post
The Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opened in April, are worthy memorials to one of the nation's greatest tragedies, according to this review.
The Dallas Morning News
A recent report by the DePaul University Institute for Housing Studies finds the number of two-flats, three-flats, and four-flats in quick decline among the residential building stock of Chicago.
Chicago Tribune
A research program at Auburn University in Alabama seeks to go national, but experience from the program’s evolution means a cautious move forward.
Dwell
The Seattle region will try to save costs and speed construction on three new pilot projects by using modular construction to house homeless.
KUOW
An already impressive skyline will be gaining some very tall additions by 2023.
Chicago Magazine
The memorial to the heroes of United Flight 93 is nearing completion in Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The popular game Minecraft offers deep lessons what building in the virtual world means in the real world.
Places Journal
For doctors trying to provide mental health care to people who are incarcerated or detained by the New York City Department of Corrections, city jails pose a challenge — and provide an opportunity.
Urban Omnibus
Cities around the country are scrambling with ways to accommodate monuments to a past that many consider as oppressive.
National Public Radio
An architect makes the case for future-proofing new parking garages so they can easily shift to other uses in a future with fewer cars.
Fast Company
The nation's capital has more square feet of green roofs than any other city in the country.
Smart Cities Dive
The suburb/city distinction is too general and prone to exceptions.
Build a Better Burb
Unlike other measures of value, writes Jeanne Gang, pay is a number. And that should make it easy for architecture firms to address any existing wage gaps.
Fast Company
San Francisco's street furniture predates Google, but the city hopes a new design will bring it into the Information Age.
San Francisco Chronicle
