How to lure an architect onto the rocks.

It is beyond dispute that climate change is already affecting the weather, geography, food production, and human behavior in negative ways. Sadly, though, neither the federal nor the state governments ...

We launched it in 2020 as a direct continuation of the 100 Resilient Cities Program and the broader resilience work of the Rockefeller Foundation. I joined the foundation in 2013, when Judith Rodin ...

Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

My recent interview on Common Edge with Michael Monti of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) elicited a question from Michael Armstrong, CEO of the National Council of ...

With the Paris Olympics still reverberating weeks after it concluded, I am reminded that this spectacle was likely enhanced by the Covid lockdowns—that the exuberance surrounding the Games could be ...

How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families. How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith ...

A talk with Sam Carter, a founding principal at the Resilient Cities Catalyst.

Why we still care, almost seven decades after his death.

It is fascinating to see attempts to use the ideas of Jane Jacobs to justify New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes proposal. Even when her ideas are misapplied, the desire to embrace those ideas ...

Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down and hidden from public scrutiny. Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe ...

Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe development shouldn’t be top-down and hidden from public scrutiny. Most New Yorkers care deeply about their great city and believe ...