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Grade Change

Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza will be overhauled with accessibility upgrades and green space

After Gentrification

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

Great Lakes Greats

The 2023 Joyce Awards winners use art to aid communities

Building Together

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

Streets, Plazas, and Parks

Outdoor Spaces will return on April 27 to highlight issues related to ecology, sustainability, public space, and urban planning

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1946–2022

Anthony Fontenot assesses Mike Davis’s impact on the world of architecture and shares a story of post-Katrina solidarity

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“A radical politics of hope”

AN shares tributes to Mike Davis (1946–2022)

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The Sour Broker

Ralph Fiennes plays an angry Robert Moses in Straight Line Crazy

Utopian Hours 2022 A World of 8 Billion Cities poster
8 Billion People, 8 Billion Cities

Utopian hours returns in 2022 with a focus on urban space at a global scale

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Walk This Way

Bodies in Urban Spaces pokes fun at the built environment

A canal with buildings on either side, presented at the 2021 utopian hours
City Making to Citizen Making

The 2021 edition of Utopian Hours looked everywhere for the city

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Street Eats

Welcome to the new normals of outdoor dining

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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

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