In America’s Cities of the Dead, Signs of New Life Emerge

Historic urban cemeteries of the 19th century are adapting to changing norms about death and luring non-mourning visitors with yoga classes and movie nights.

Can Massachusetts Resurrect the Starter Home?

Affordable housing advocates want to rewrite the state’s minimum lot size rules, which often mandate big lots for new single-family homes. Foes see a loss of local control.

How MIT Turned an Impenetrable Storage Warehouse Into Its Gleaming School of Design

With its adaptation of a vast storage facility into MIT’s new School of Architecture, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro made the building a classroom lesson.

How MIT Turned an Impenetrable Storage Warehouse Into Its Gleaming School of Design

With its adaptation of a vast storage facility into MIT’s new School of Architecture, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro made the building a classroom lesson.

Study: Rapid transit project on Maryland Parkway cutting travelers' commute times

Home to 109,000 jobs and 63,000 residents along its 12.5-mile length, Maryland Parkway is one of Southern Nevada’s most vital corridors — and a new national case study says federal funding is driving...

In West Africa, one road could change a continent — and the world

A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.

COMMENTARY: It’s time to fix vaccine injury compensation

Canals cool down cities during heatwaves – new research

Canals can provide cooling corridors in cities, a study shows.

Growth and Grit in Cleveland: A Conversation with Mayor Justin Bibb - Lincoln Institute of Land...

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, recently reelected to a second term, details his vision for repurposing vacant land and creating “America’s North Coast” along the Lake Erie and Cuyahoga River waterfro...

Builders Look to Nature for Alternatives to Brick, Steel and Concrete

Bio-based building materials like cork, straw, and even sewage sludge can trim the carbon emissions and other costs of typical construction — if regulators give them a chance.

The right flight path for the low-altitude economy

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, has begun drawing roads in the sky. Its new "Sky Road Map" — the first of its kind in China — charts hundreds of flight corridors and thousands of landing points...

Legalizing single-stair, a path to affordable housing

A report from Massachusetts quantifies the significant potential of legalizing four- to six-story single-stair buildings.

An ode to Alexandria

George Washington helped to build a nation later in life. As a teenager, he planned a city that is still a model of livability.

Jacob Riis Bathhouse on track to reopen as private club by end of July

The developers behind the upcoming Rockaway Ocean Club have spent nearly a decade restoring the long-abandoned bathhouse built by Robert Moses.

Walt Disney’s Urban Planning Fantasy - A Rabbit's Foot