Willige Langerak polder, Utrecht, 1984. [© Rijkswaterstaat / Gerrit Zeilstra] “God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands.” So the saying goes, in…
Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria, 2012. [ PG Media via Wikimedia Commons under license CC BY 3.0 ] If you wan’ go wash, na water you go use If you wan’ cook soup, na…
The remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista provokes troubling questions about colonialism and nationalism, and about the already fraught relationship between architecture and power.
The polarization between city and country is an old story, but now it is entrenched in the upstate New York communities that were sacrificed to provide water to the downstate metropolis.
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.
It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.
In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was more than a hiking path. It was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
Let’s hear it for the neighborhood hardware store. Here, amidst the nuts and bolts, we cultivate the potential to order things, places, communities, politics, and values — we might even say, to build and repair worlds.
