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 ...

Atlanta’s skyline tells a story of ambition, reinvention, and social exclusion. At the center of it stands architect-developer John Portman, whose master planning of the Peachtree Center district in ...

Sean Ferry and I walked past the waiting room and into the OB-GYN clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Paterson, New Jersey. It was a Thursday afternoon in late July, around noon. A midwife saw us ...

For years there has been a loud and often polarizing battle: NIMBYs vs. YIMBYs. But as housing costs soar and climate pressures mount, a new movement might offer a way forward—one that’s not about ...

In an era dominated by naked self-interest and polarizing political debates on climate change, a quiet revolution is taking place, regardless of the political landscape. The transformation of our ...

The two ends of Los Angeles’ Cultural Crescent—formed by the majestic Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains and their foothills, which ring the northern end of the great L.A. Basin—are gone. For ...

Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just ...

Ever open to change and a challenge, in September 1983, I donned the cloak of the newly anointed urban design critic of the Los Angeles Times to principally cover architecture. But also planning, ...

The fall night was crisp and clear. Sunlight was just fading over the Hudson River. I was making my way to the Friends Seminary School on East 16th Street in New York, where I was invited to witness ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

In the most recent NBA season, the Brooklyn Nets finished well out of playoff contention. It was more than a year after the team lost three superstars who briefly brought buzz, and championship hopes, ...

The whining of architects is futile. The stick-frame-over-podium building—the so-called 5-over-1—is here to stay. The Box, as I like to refer to it, utilizes the hybrid technology of a ...