When Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney started working to design the downtown riverwalk in 2001, people looked at the Chicago River like they do an alley — something to be avoided. But on warm, ...

Throughout my early life, my father would get up at 4:30 in the morning, six days a week, for his job as a contractor. I knew his work was taxing from seeing his coarse hands and tired eyes after he ...

GILBERT Yu is the unacknowledged architect who placed the mall at the center of our urban life. His biography, “The Life and Adventures of Architect Gilbert Yu” (Bucketmedia Inc.), written by Iris ...

English architect Elizabeth Burton has just coauthored a fine book (Inclusive Urban Design: Streets for Life) on designing spaces and neighborhoods to accommodate all ages and abilities. Near the end ...

“I’m a fundamental believer that design is either for or against the common good,” Timothy Swanson, a designer and urban planner, says. “You’re enhancing and empowering experience for all, or you’re ...

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