Although it has some flaws, a new book laudably surveys the best of contemporary contextual design across the U.S.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has committed to equitable and inclusive policies in his administration, giving us hope that planning and development might finally be based on community needs ...

Because FDNY is slower than any other municipality to approve changes, the newly created ADU program will not increase legal ...

For the past 30 years, I have been educating urban planners on the way Latinos are transforming the U.S. urban landscape—or, as I call it, Latino Urbanism. I have had some success. But I’m beginning ...

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...

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 ...

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

Water is not a passive element but a living intelligence. Water moves dynamically—swelling with the tides daily, rising with the moon monthly, replenishing the land through seasonal floods, ...

I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads ...

The rise of generative AI has given every design educator sufficient reason to reconsider both what to teach and how to teach it. Training an architect is a long process, and mapping it onto an ...