If you follow the ongoing and often heated debate over housing policy in Massachusetts, you likely saw the viral moment at a recent Marblehead town meeting, when a resident—dressed like a stand-in ...

The presumption here is that neighborhoods are in some sense “intrinsic,” that the proper form of cities is some “structure of neighborhoods,” that “neighborhood” is equivalent to “community,” and ...

I begin with a confession: the first city I ever visited, outside of that big-shouldered metropolis close to my suburban Chicago home, was Walt Disney World. At least, the Florida theme park seemed ...

The handful of blocks immediately across Stoney Island Avenue from the newly completed Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago are a typical South Side hopscotch of ...

While the first article in this series on artificial intelligence (AI) explored how designers may be uniquely positioned to confront the technology’s implications, this second essay examines AI as a ...

New GSD research shows that compliance with the Massachusetts transit-linked zoning law is both more widespread—and more nuanced—than is often depicted in the media. In a packed Marblehead town hall ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) arrives at a time when the design fields face deep contradictions. How can concerns for sustainability reconcile with the need for growth? How can socially inclusive ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping design practice, opening new questions about how designers work, what they make, and how the discipline itself is changing. In 1991, two researchers ...

A cone of intersecting strips of red-white-and-blue woven vinyl fabric greets visitors near the entrance to A Temporary Exhibition of Temporal Public Spaces, on view at the Harvard Graduate School of ...

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ancient times. The very difficulty of defining neat disciplinary boundaries ...

The Stratos Project, announced to the public in April of this year, is a “hyperscale” data center planned for the rural Hansel Valley in Utah’s Box Elder County. If operating at its projected capacity ...

The zoning code has long been the primary policy target for planners seeking to increase housing production. More recently, however, cities that have already enacted meaningful zoning reform have ...