On Wednesday night, at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California, the 2012 TED Prize went to something TED is calling the City 2.0.

The buzz leading up to the announcement was that it was going to an idea rather than a person. This undoubtedly got a lot of...

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work."

-- Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912)

"yes i was wondering how I go about not lossing my house it has been in...

Now that Occupy LA has been cleared out of "Solidarity Park" it's a good time to consider alternatives to simply putting back the lawn. The mayor is justifiably vexed about the occupiers ruining the pretty grass, but rather than simply replacing this water-hog, perhaps the city could take a moment...

Mayor V. and the LAPD have thus far been leading the nation in terms of allowing the Occupy movement to peacefully exercise First Amendment rights. This will all be erased on Sunday night when the LAPD moves in to enforce the midnight deadline for clearing out.

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There have been suggestions that Occupy Wall Street give up the occupation of physical space and turn to the real issues, that the encampments are, as Nicholas D. Kristof states in his Sunday New York Times column, "sideshows." He has a valid point. There is only so far...

Dear Mayors:

Now that we have reached the milestone of the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and it shows no signs of diminishing, I have taken it upon myself to offer some advice.

Maybe it's time to reconsider your positions in relation to what is turning...

Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg and Brookfield Office Properties green-lighting the midnight raid on Occupy Wall Street's "Liberty Square," I am now an insomniac. That will teach me to check Twitter in the wee hours. The revolution will not be televised but it will be Tweeted and YouTubed and Facebooked and...

By Guy Horton & Sherin Wing

The architecture of PATTERNS, a Los Angeles-based firm run by partners Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, is defiantly contemporary. This is so because their buildings derive not merely from other building precedents but from influences culled from...

Witold Rybczynski, author of fifteen books and over 300 articles, is one of the most prolific and engaging writers on architecture and the urban milieu. He is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture critic for Slate.

His writing, propelled by...

While it should have been impossible for something like the Holocaust to take place, it did. Now that we have this history we must deal with it as best we can. Events such as this simply overpower the present. For this reason, perhaps, there exist physical places to anchor those...

Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dimensions of architecture. He is one of the nation's leading voices for design that uplifts and enhances life as well as the environment. His new book, Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a...

Park51 has been called many things, but to call it Superman's Fortress of Solitude, as in a recent AP article, is both misleading and condescending. Such descriptions undermine any serious discussion of the building's connection to contemporary architecture. It also unfairly dismisses...