Cities
Global culture, civic competition, social impact
What does building for the arts mean in the 21st century?
Penn palimpsest: History becomes the future
Experts in architecture and planning discuss Penn Station's regional context, history, and future.
Maurice Cox lecture
Detroit's director of planning and development offers insight into the city's revitalization efforts.
The city that never was: Entropy
Robin Nagle, Bill Braham, and Iñaki Abalos consider waste and disorder as points of departure for new urban formats.
The city that never was: Agility
Considering a more agile urbanism that anticipates a multiplicity of potential outcomes—including failure.
The city that never was: Fertility
Landscape-driven principles offer opportunities for rethinking and reorganizing human settlements.
The city that never was: Utility
How might notions of flexibility and synthesis produce more nimble and resilient settlements? Panelists discuss.
New York, climate change, and sea level rise
A prescient 2008 lecture by climate scientist Klaus Jacob.
Transversal modernity: Spatial discourse in architectural paper projects in Iran, 1960–1978
Shima Mohajeri examines a 1973 design proposal for a civic center in Tehran by Louis Kahn.