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Architecture critic Paul Goldberger is one of many who have raised their voices in alarm at the way President Trump is proposing to alter and add to the White House. There is much to agree with in his ...

The urban form of Paris is more than the Haussmann blocks that are associated with its formal character, or the quaint scale of the older Marais or Latin Quarter that provide much of the city’s ...

Thirty-five years ago, I graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of a small cohort of Mexican American students. We were few in number, but we carried big questions ...

San Francisco, May 2022. Friday, 5:00 p.m. My first time visiting an American downtown. I had just landed, and my first instinct—having grown up walking, exploring, and working in European cities—was ...

As a Mexican American interested in the relational nature of cities, the author was fortunate to attend MIT when vestiges of radical planning still lingered. As a Mexican American interested in the ...