The future of our country's landscape -- how and where we will accommodate demographic, economic and environmental changes in the coming decades -- is a matter of concern for all Americans, regardless of preference for urban, suburban, exurban or rural conditions. In "A Country of Cities," a provocative series of opinion pieces published…

Next week we will bring you a first hand look at the design of the library at P.S. 69 in the Bronx, one of over 50 public schools in the five boroughs that participated in the Robin Hood Library Initiative. Tonight, don't miss a unique chance to hear from administrators, educators and architects. The Architectural…

FAST TRASH is an exhibition about the underground pneumatic garbage collection system in use on Roosevelt Island in New York City since 1975. We are so into this topic — exposing an innovative infrastructural system, exploring a fascinating New York city neighborhood, and speculating on what it might mean for the future of cities — that we are inviting all of you to come

I stopped by the Camp for Oppositional Architecture Friday night.  It was a "bar+" night; lectures are held in the space every other day, but nonetheless I wanted to see the space on Front Street in DUMBO and talk to some of the renegades behind An Architektur. I spoke with a German…

If economic troubles haven’t already prompted us to reassess current development trends, a panel that assembled November 7 at Cooper Union’s Great Hall certainly could. That’s the hope, at least, for Olympia Kazi, Executive Director of the Institute for Urban