Once upon a time, the automobile was regarded as the key to modern mobility. Designers and planners envisioned grand superhighways...

Istanbul is magnificent, messy, unpredictable, and growing at lightning speed. It is at once an economic capital seen as fertile...

Gregory Wessner:  I have to admit that my reaction to Common Ground, David Chipperfield’s exhibition in the Arsenale, was influenced...

Currently on view at the WUHO Gallery in Hollywood is a retrospective exhibit entitled Unfinished Business: 25 Years of Discourse in...

GLOWING COMMUTER ROUTES The inherent elegance of New York City's transportation network might not be obvious to everyone. So, we're lucky that creative minds, like those of the animators and designers at 422 South, can make us marvel at the complexity of our urban systems. For the PBS series...

From a personal story of industrial decline to a national exploration of energy production, the artist discusses the themes that connect his body of work, including his current exhibition of photographs of some of New York's extraordinary and idiosyncratic trees.

What makes a city innovative? And in what ways does innovation need the city (or not)? As the panelists at...

Dylan Thuras explains the story behind an online compendium of weird and wondrous places, reflecting on the nature of exploration, discovery and wonder.

Before Urban Omnibus went live, we co-hosted a weekend-long event that invited teams to design a project in the public interest and build it from found materials in two days. The event was led by Bryan Bell, on the occasion of the launch of his 2008 book Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, which surveys the field of "creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good." Bell, founder of Design Corps and co-founder of SEED, has been working towards a better understanding...

Thaddeus Pawlowski reflects on his participation in a recent professional urban design exchange between São Paulo and New York.