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Tiny packages, shiny houses, and the ceaseless project of desire are at the center of Nathan Fielder’s The Curse

After Gentrification

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

Letter From Italy

Alcova, a temporary design exhibition in Milan, takes place within a wider context of real estate speculation

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

a pedestrian trail flanked by new development at the atlanta beltline
Keeping Tabs

The Atlanta BeltLine launches online mapping for tracking community investments

Looking at the twin towers from across Brooklyn
Rethinking Rethinking New York

In the wake of 9/11, a critical anthology of essays and designs advocated big changes; it’s just as timely as ever

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Money For MoCA

Public investment in Manhattan’s Museum of Chinese in America sparks anti-gentrification protests

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The Opposite of Ticky-Tacky?

On Olive wants to build community through design, but will it push out an existing St. Louis residents?

Exterior rendering of 960 Franklin ave, towering over the brooklyn botanic garden
Not in Brooklyn's Backyard

Borough President Eric Adams votes down proposed towers by Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Skyline of manhattan; in a new letter, the architecture lobby is asking people to pledge to build a stronger nyc
Building More Justly

The Architecture Lobby and Art Against Displacement NYC call for more equitable design

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Designer Health for Designer Tenants

Op-ed: Tech, class, cynicism, and pandemic real estate

Protestors massed in front of a school-to-loft conversion
What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture

Op-ed: Architecture critics have a duty to interrogate inequality in the built environment

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Whose Port?

Op-ed: Landmarks Preservation Commission, preserve the past, don’t block the future

The skyline of Louisville, kentucky, as seen from a steel bridge
A Southern Story

Contestations over redevelopment in Louisville reveal a historical pattern of prioritizing property over people

The HOK-designed 725 Harrison Street evokes a boat shape
SoMaNy New Developments

HOK will bring a ship-like office complex to San Francisco

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Uptown Blues

Manhattan judge shuts down Mayor de Blasio’s Inwood rezoning plan

a rendering of a new multi-use complex lines the bronx's harlem river
Big-Time Bronx

See the four must-know developments coming online in the South Bronx

A looming detention center in Atlanta
Same building, New purpose

Atlanta City Detention Center could become mixed-use community development

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