Urban designer Dennis Pieprz talks about his new book, Urban Lens: A Photo Diary of An Architectural Traveler.

Architecture has a relevance problem. Not within design schools, juries, awards programs, or the pages of professional publications—architects remain very good at talking to one another. The problem ...

For the past 30 years, I have been educating urban planners on the way Latinos are transforming the U.S. urban landscape—or, as I call it, Latino Urbanism. I have had some success. But I’m beginning ...

This past July, an OpenAI model, running as an autonomous agent, escaped the bounds of an internal cybersecurity evaluation, forced its way onto the open internet, and spent several days inside ...

When I began writing for Common Edge almost a decade ago, I resolved to let readers know when a significant book appeared that might change their view of architecture, urbanism, and landscape. I ...

Absolutely. I figured that it was important to go through with Tod and Billie and their team from TWBTA [Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects], and to see the finished building through their eyes. And ...

Though economists and historians will study the decline of the American economy and the rise of oligarchic capitalism for decades, those who lament the resulting loss of affordable housing and ...

The university has the opportunity to reconnect architectural education with its own tradition of intellectual diversity and historical inquiry.

The price of living in Rome must have been substantial. A tombstone from a shared tomb outside Rome bears an inscription termed “The Tenant’s Lament” for the ex-slave Ancarenus Nothus. It reads: “My ...

The inflation-adjusted price of residential land in the U.S. quadrupled between 1975 and 2006. By 2025, New York City’s land values were estimated at $2.84 trillion. Manhattan’s land alone is valued ...

When people think about forward-thinking approaches to public space and landscape architecture, the Midwest and the Rust Belt are not often the first places that come to mind. More familiar images of ...

America is experiencing a loneliness epidemic, as then–Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in May 2023. His groundbreaking report offered a six-pillar plan for how America needs to respond in order ...