Citadels of the Elite

[T]here’s an iron law of 21st-century life: when something is desirable, the “one per cent” grabs it. The great cities … More

Protests in Taksim Square

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Richard Florida, head of the Creative Class Group and chief advocate of the hipster approach to urban renewal, now admits … More

The media is still trying to process the results of the U.S. election. Most of the commentary considers what the … More

Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, flying against all conventional urban planning wisdom, proposes making it harder to ride a bike … More

Keller Easterling examines a particularly opaque form of urbanism, the free trade zone. Definitions of the term vary a lot, … More

For this week’s Fun FridayI’ve collected some of the best Tweets I’ve seen this week. Some of the Tweets linked … More

This has been a really busy week, so I’ve been in a virtual Internet blackout. Right after I finish this … More

Rick Poyner pages through the latest issue of Icon magazine devoted to ruins. The issue introduction echoes Walter Benjamin’s remarks … More

The 12th issue of the journal MAS Context appears to be its longest and, perhaps not coincidentally, among its strongest … More