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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Speaks At The National Press Club — Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America

DC Mayor Re-ups Call for Statehood as Trump Threatens Takeover

Mayor Muriel Bowser is defending local governance as she braces for an economic hit to Washington, DC, from mass federal layoffs. But she says she’s working with the president on crime and homelessness.

Heatwave in Ghent — Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images

As Visitors Discover Ghent, the City Is Trying to Prevent a Tourism Takeover

The Belgian city is increasingly popular with day trippers — and wary of the effect that too many tourists can have on the local housing market and quality of life.

Little Saigon

Who Should Pay to Fix the Sidewalk?

Construction Of California's High Speed Rail

Trump Targets $128 Billion California High-Speed Rail Project

Disney New York Corporate Headquarters Designed by SOM

Sorry, Kids: Disney’s New York Headquarters Is for Grown-Ups

Aerial view of Row Houses in Richmond, Virginia

DOGE Comes for Affordable Housing Mortgage Insurance

Barcelona's Building Eviction Stalled After Hundreds Rally To Stop It

Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Housing Crisis

Progressive Portland Plots a Comeback

Progressive Portland Plots a Comeback

How to Build a Neurodiverse City

How to Build a Neurodiverse City

Daily Camera Archives

Why American Mobility Ground to a Halt

US-CRIME-ATTACK

What Can Cities Do to Protect Public Spaces From Vehicle Attacks?

Housing

BIZ-REAL-CHURCH-APARTMENTS-1-CS — The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

Why Turning Churches Into Housing Is So Hard

Religious groups own millions of acres of land and thousands of empty buildings across the US. But converting this real estate into affordable homes takes more than just faith.

Eric Adams' Vanishing Promise to Fix NYC's 'Unfair' Property Taxes

AOC Proposes $30 Billion Social Housing Authority

Design

FRANCE-URBANISM-MARSEILLE-POUILLON — Anne-Chistine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images

The Forgotten French Architect Who Rebuilt Marseille

In contrast to Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon’s work in postwar Marseille shows that modernist planning can be both innovative and historically sensitive.

Super Bowl LIX Preview — Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images North America

In New Orleans, an Aging Dome Tries to Stay Super

The Caesars Superdome is marking 50 years and hosting its eighth Super Bowl, having survived Hurricane Katrina and outlived nearly all of its 20th century rivals.

Elizabeth Jennings School for Bold Explorers and Khalil Gibran International Academy by Architecture Research Office — Pavel Bendov/James Ewing/Sarah Schumacher for Bloomberg

New York’s First ‘Passive House’ School Is a Model of Downtown Density

A progressive elementary school and Arabic language high school occupy a high-achieving Brooklyn building designed by Architecture Research Office.

FRANCE-ECONOMY-POLITICS-SOCIAL — Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP via Getty Images

When French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building Boom

The new book A Concrete Alliance explores the daring and divisive architecture built by the Communist Party of France in working-class towns of the 1960s and ’70s.

Senate Lawmakers To Vote During Impeachment Trial Of President Trump — Amanda Andrade-Rhoades//Bloomberg

Trump Revives Plans for a ‘National Garden of American Heroes’

An executive order would erect 250 statues, a sign the president is not overlooking symbolic gestures in his first 100 days.

Design

FRANCE-URBANISM-MARSEILLE-POUILLON — Anne-Chistine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images

The Forgotten French Architect Who Rebuilt Marseille

In contrast to Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon’s work in postwar Marseille shows that modernist planning can be both innovative and historically sensitive.

Super Bowl LIX Preview — Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images North America

In New Orleans, an Aging Dome Tries to Stay Super

The Caesars Superdome is marking 50 years and hosting its eighth Super Bowl, having survived Hurricane Katrina and outlived nearly all of its 20th century rivals.

Elizabeth Jennings School for Bold Explorers and Khalil Gibran International Academy by Architecture Research Office — Pavel Bendov/James Ewing/Sarah Schumacher for Bloomberg

New York’s First ‘Passive House’ School Is a Model of Downtown Density

A progressive elementary school and Arabic language high school occupy a high-achieving Brooklyn building designed by Architecture Research Office.

FRANCE-ECONOMY-POLITICS-SOCIAL — Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP via Getty Images

When French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building Boom

The new book A Concrete Alliance explores the daring and divisive architecture built by the Communist Party of France in working-class towns of the 1960s and ’70s.

Senate Lawmakers To Vote During Impeachment Trial Of President Trump — Amanda Andrade-Rhoades//Bloomberg

Trump Revives Plans for a ‘National Garden of American Heroes’

An executive order would erect 250 statues, a sign the president is not overlooking symbolic gestures in his first 100 days.

MapLab

How Trump Put ‘Gulf of America’ on the Map

How Trump Put ‘Gulf of America’ on the Map

Mary Baker Eddy Library, the Mapparium, Boston, Ma, USA

After Seven Years, Goodbye To MapLab Readers

How Historians Mapped the Lost Oyster Reefs of Europe

How Historians Mapped the Lost Oyster Reefs of Europe

In US Swing States, Migrants Aren’t Settling in Trump Country

In US Swing States, Migrants Aren’t Settling in Trump Country

Look at That Building

A series for the architecturally curious.

Look at That Building: Merchandise Mart

How Chicago’s Gigantic Merchandise Mart Is Still Thriving as Office Space

Book Tower

How Detroit Reclaimed a Towering Relic From the Roaring ’20s

Brooklyn's Twisting Apartment Towers Solve a Waterfront Puzzle

Brooklyn's Twisting Apartment Towers Solve a Waterfront Puzzle

A University Drops a ‘Stack of Books’ on Boston’s Skyline

A University Drops a ‘Stack of Books’ on Boston’s Skyline

Iconic Homes That Define Global Cities

How the way we live has shaped the history and architecture of urban neighborhoods.

Gers in Ulaanbaatar

An Affordable Nomadic Home Design Struggles to Adapt to Urban Life

Georgian town houses in Edinburgh, Scotland

How Edinburgh Tenements Became an Urban Housing Blueprint

South Korea Apartments

How Corporations Created the Prototypical Seoul Apartment

Majestic Victorian apartment building near Cadogan Square in the affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Chelsea, London

How Mansion Blocks Filled London With Stacks of Flats