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Further Reading: John May’s Signal. Image. Architecture

In his new book-length essay, Signal. Image. Architecture. (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,…

Dec 16, 2019

Further Reading: Eve Blau’s Baku: Oil and Urbanism

Baku—like Dubai and other major cities flush from the oil industry—has seen an upsurge of…

Dec 13, 2019

Historian Lizabeth Cohen reflects on Alex Krieger’s new book, City on a Hill

A beautifully illustrated book that comes out of more than three decades of teaching and…

Dec 11, 2019

Fight or Flight? Designers and planners grapple with whether to fight the effects of climate change, or accept the inevitability of mass migration

To quote Margaret Atwood, climate change isn’t just about the climate, it’s…

Dec 5, 2019

Socks Studio: Part visual atlas, part psychological voyage into the unknown

What do textured Aurelian walls, a Franciscan friar’s dabblings in typography, and a telecommunicated exhibition…

Nov 26, 2019

The Collective Amnesia of Sugar Land: Unearthing a link between mass incarceration and slavery

In early 2018, the remains of 95 people were found in Sugar Land, Texas, as…

Nov 7, 2019

A Bodily Relationship with Territory: End. Words from the Margins mines the wildness and emptiness of New York City’s coastal edges

New York City is often regarded as the most densely designed, overdetermined real estate on…

Nov 4, 2019

Highlights from the 2019 “Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future” Conference

Highlights from the 2019 Black in Design Conference,…

Nov 1, 2019

Love in a Mist—or Devil in a Bush? How the politics of fertility relate to the subjugation of the natural world

In June 1648, a Puritan midwife named Margaret Jones was executed by hanging from an…

Oct 30, 2019

Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class

America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…

Oct 24, 2019