I remember looking toward the edge of town and thinking that something seemed off. We had stopped here before crossing the Continental Divide, in one of those typically charming Colorado mountain ...

Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement’s charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so. The choice of metaphor is intentional. Duany believes the metaphorical asteroid ...

I see a fork in the road coming in the real estate industry. I see it when I drive far out from cities, in places they used to call “the country,” and observe extensions of suburban sprawl. Housing ...

When Detroit went bankrupt in July of 2013, it marked the climax of urban failure in the U.S. In a half-century, the Motor City had gone from the nation’s richest city per capita to its poorest, and ...

"One of the first hits I got when I was googling about female architecture was a high-rise building in Australia, whose architects said that they had been inspired by Beyoncé's curves when they built ...

For a guy who was born and raised in a big city, and made his name producing terrible real estate developments there, Donald Trump wasn’t exactly partial to big cities as president. Trump’s idea of ...

Earlier today in Shenzhen the 6th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) opened its doors to public. Under the overall theme "Re-Living the City," curators Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert ...

I don’t know if urbanism is science or art, but I do know its outcomes are best with a dose of creativity. There’s plenty to learn from the giant leaps in art and science to improve your urbanism ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 - Good Health & Wellbeing; SDG 09 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure; SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities; SDG 15 - 15 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from “Urbanism Without Effort,” by Charles R. Wolfe, published by Island Press. In it, the author uses text and photos to illustrate how unplanned spaces and ...