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Word on the Street

Open Streets Initiative will aid cities in optimizing coronavirus street closures

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Takin' it to the streets

Cities open up streets to pedestrians as parks overcrowd

People on street with skyscrapers in the distance; Jakarta, Indonesia
Capital Move

Indonesia’s new capital city will be master-planned by AECOM, McKinsey & Company, Nikken Sekkei

Headshot of a man, Rahul Mehrotra, in a white shirt against a stone wall
Ten Years in the Making

Rahul Mehrotra is Harvard GSD’s new Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design

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New Year's Reading Resolution

Kick off 2020 with these architecture primers

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Urban Ideals

Utopian Hours festival brings international urbanism to Turin

Cover of a book with Sunset Plaza Market on the cover
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Mall

A study of L.A. strip malls validates a long-ignored building type

An older man, Roger Scruton, looking smug
In-Scruton-Able

Roger Scruton reinstated as chair of U.K. housing commission

A young Denise Scott Brown in front of the old Vegas strip
I Was a Circus Horse Rider

Denise Scott Brown reflects on balancing architecture and urbanism

AURA Summer Academy 2019 / Istanbul: Past, Present, Future

Detroit Design 139: Inclusive Futures

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Booted from Beauty

Roger Scruton fired from U.K. housing commission over inflammatory comments

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Hope for Better Things

Utile envisions a grand, new future for Detroit’s Eastern Market

Architecture of Power: Short Story Contest

Sir Roger Scruton
Some Old Time Religion

UK housing chair blasts modernism amid ire over alleged extremist views

Independent School for the City
School for the City

Dutch activists launch new school for urbanism and migration

A graphical representation of the design and refinement process from Times of Creative Destruction.
Burn It Down, Build It Up

Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre track the seismic shifts in post-war architecture

NYC Marathon
Who Runs the World

How city terrain affects runners at the world’s major marathon sites

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