Grounding studio assignments in historical and current cultural issues is the best way to foster empathy in students.

Gehl famously defined the placemaking approach to urban planning thusly: “First people, then places, then buildings—the other way around never works.” From this simple premise, placemakers have been ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning. Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes ...

Episode 1: Witold Rybcynzski and Kurt Andersen explore the age-old question, “What is ugly?” ...

Why it’s the solution to livable cities.

How the Battle of the Grid played out in New Orleans and New York.

Metrics have been used for years by NIMBYs, YIMBYs, municipalities, and numerous other housing-focused groups to fight for their desired outcomes. But most metrics that are employed are seriously ...

Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning. Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes ...

The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements that lost affordable units be replaced. The problem is that City of Yes was an open call to build with no requirements ...

Ever one to hope for the best, last semester I suggested that students use ChatGPT as a “research partner” in the big bibliographic project they do in the fall term of Parallel Narratives, their ...

Episode 1: Witold Rybcynzski and Kurt Andersen explore the age-old question, “What is ugly?” ...