Articles in Architecture & Design
Hostile Architecture Is Evil and Should Be Banned
Attacking homeless people with spikes is morally tantamount to assault. Designers should not be permitted to incorporate the threat of pain into the built environment.
How To Build Beautiful Places
The late architectural theorist Christopher Alexander offered a vision for a livable future.
Why Doesn’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis By Building Some New Cities?
Around the world, when cities are overcrowded, governments have orchestrated the building of new cities. In the U.S., this seems absurd or utopian. Why?
The Need for a New Garden City Movement
In the early 1900s, a strange and wonderful planning fad caught on. It can still help us think about building livable places.
The Royal Dystopia of Poundbury
A town with no people is not a town, but a deathly museum.
When Is the Revolution in Architecture Coming?
We need to build places we can’t stop looking at. It will involve lots of plants.
Seize the Elevators
On the coming and necessary abolition of the tower.
The Only Thing Worse Than A NIMBY Is A YIMBY
Pro-development activists try to trick you into thinking it helps the poor to destroy neighborhoods to make way for luxury condos. We need a radically democratic preservationism.
Jacuzzis in the Battlements: A Peek Into The Fantasy World of Grand Designs
We all want a dream home. Some of us might want it a little too much.
Democracy and Buildings
What kind of places would we build together?
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