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After Gentrification

American cities are 70 percent suburban by area. What can architects do about it?

“Cop City”

Despite significant pushback, a new public safety training center will move forward in Atlanta

Reinventing Dealey Plaza

Mark Lamster, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, and MPdL Studio offer a new public terrain for downtown Dallas that addresses its violent past

Check Mate

It’s game over for Philadelphia’s Your Move

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Al Fresco

New York City lays out plans for permanent outdoor dining sheds and increased public spaces funding

Building Together

The Davos Baukultur Alliance wants to change how our cities are built. Will it work?

Upending the Canon

The Architecture of Disability invites us to collectively imagine a new, better world

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Coming to Fruition

Upgrades for Brooklyn’s Broadway Junction to come in 2030

Casinos in the City

After legislative changes, more gambling operations are being proposed for dense urban locations. Is this a good thing?

An Improved Front Yard

Sasaki transforms Boston’s City Hall Plaza from a “vast wasteland” into a friendly, accessible landscape

Canopy Plus Community

Adjaye Associates and artist Daniel Boyd deliver Sydney community center informed by Aboriginal concepts

The 411 on I-45

Controversial Houston highway expansion will resume following civil rights investigation

Understanding Upper Manhattan

Historian Thomas J. Sugrue introduces an expanded edition of Brian D. Goldstein’s The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem

Solidifying Shadows

Nina Cooke John–designed Harriet Tubman monument unveiled in Newark

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All Aboard?

Independent panel recommends improved bus service to LaGuardia Airport in lieu of proposed AirTrain

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Half-Baked Urbanity

Trump proposes “Freedom Cities” and challenges state governors to “get rid of ugly buildings”

Edward Hopper’s New York installation view
Reality and Fantasy

Edward Hopper’s New York captures the famed painter’s lifelong relationship to his city

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History of Capitalism 101

Against the Commons documents the often not-ideal role of shared land in urban planning

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