In the ’60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture fashion Article 1435 words, published Jan 21 2020 4 votes
How to build your own starter house in just five steps — for $25,000 architecture Article 862 words, published Aug 31 2016 6 votes
Seattle’s Queen of Neon: Meet the designer of the city’s most iconic signs — from the Elephant Car Wash to Dick’s Drive-In Article 2103 words 6 votes
A writer’s prefab retreat sits lightly upon the land in Joshua Tree architecture Article 578 words 5 votes
New LA museum spotlights Hollywood costumes, from Dracula cape to Spider Woman dress fashion Article 546 words 7 votes
Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River urban planning Article 3024 words 6 votes
"I like to think of bricks as brushstrokes or pixels" An interview with Will Quam, a brick enthusiast in Chicago architecture Article 315 words 5 votes
Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did urban planning Article 916 words 14 votes
A small city with big delusions: Pine Island, MN (population 3,000) has huge dreams, yet they can’t take care of their basic systems. Who pays the price? urban planning Article 862 words, published Jul 30 2019 8 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
Home elevators have killed and injured kids for decades. Safety regulators won’t order a simple fix. architecture Article 4217 words 8 votes
Sans serif, sans progressive policies: How campaign branding came to be a way for candidates to signal their progressive bona fides without actually having them. typography Article 1492 words 7 votes
Oregon just voted to legalize duplexes on almost every city lot urban planning Article 1363 words 11 votes
Could Barcelona’s plan to push out cars and build superblocks work in the US? urban planning Article 2014 words, published Apr 12 2019 11 votes
Separated by design: How some of America’s richest towns fight affordable housing urban planning Article 5420 words, published May 22 2019 6 votes
A highway runs through it: Inside the push to tear down an Oakland freeway urban planning Link 6 votes
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars architecture urban planning Article 5424 words, published Mar 14 2019 13 votes
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich architecture urban planning Article 3673 words 14 votes
How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa Article 5229 words, published Jan 9 2019 15 votes
Cincinnati joins the list of cities saying ‘no’ to parking minimums urban planning Article 469 words 11 votes
An inversion of nature: How air conditioning created the modern city urban planning architecture Article 1733 words 3 votes