America’s housing crisis is not a glitch in the system—it’s a feature. For more than a century, exclusionary zoning has weaponized the single-family house, first to keep Black families out, then to ...

The nation’s current housing crisis is more than a century in the making. Single-family zoning began shortly before World War I and was used primarily as a tool to exclude Black Americans from ...

The neighborhood in Oakland where I live, Lower Rockridge—or Baja Rockridge, as I like to call it—is shifting from a community rooted in relationships to one increasingly defined by transactions. Its ...

With recent discoveries in physics that indicate time has three dimensions, Common Edge has connected a living architectural historian in Washington, D.C., with the designer of the Virginia State ...