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Architecture

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Review: Buckminster Fuller Helped Inspire Our Future

The new book Inventor of the Future prefers to show him as a credit hog.

Brian Doherty | 12.9.2022 6:00 AM

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Architecture

Christopher Alexander's Utopian Blueprint

There is telling people how to live, and there is maximizing people's ability to live the lives they want.

Jesse Walker | 6.30.2022 6:00 AM

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Music

The Kinks vs. the People in Grey

Happy 50th birthday to Muswell Hillbillies, a concept album about nostalgia, conformity, and the evils of urban renewal programs.

Jesse Walker | 10.31.2021 6:00 AM

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Property Rights

Boston Officials Want to Know if You Think This Dilapidated Shack Is Historically Significant

The city's solicitation of public input on the demolition of shacks, sheds, and boarded up homes is an invitation for NIMBYism.

Christian Britschgi | 10.28.2021 4:10 PM

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Reason Roundup

Trump Outlaws Ugly Federal Buildings

Plus: House OKs bloated $1.4 trillion spending package, new Amash bills aim to protect asylum seekers and immigrant detainees, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.22.2020 9:33 AM

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Suburbs

The Weird Beauty of Suburbia

How can a place that we're intimately familiar with—more than half of America lives in the suburbs—be so unknowable?

Amanda Kolson Hurley | 10.31.2020 6:00 AM

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Zoning

This California Man Researched the City Code Before Building a 'Dream' Treehouse. The City Is Screwing Him Anyway.

Not only did Brian Esola make sure he wasn't violating the city code, he also checked with his neighbors beforehand.

Joe Setyon | 9.13.2018 11:05 AM

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Sustainability

Green Building Practices May Have Contributed to the Grenfell Fire

The local government put "sustainability" ahead of safety.

Christian Britschgi | 6.22.2017 11:30 AM

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U.A.E.

The United Martian Emirates

Space-colonization dreams from the Middle East

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2017 10:05 AM

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Friday A/V Club

Free to Adapt

Friday A/V Club: What happens to buildings after they're built?

Jesse Walker | 5.5.2017 1:40 PM

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Culture

Architecture, Fate, and Utopia

The right way for an experiment to fail

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2016 1:55 PM

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Culture

Private Pop-Up Towns in the Far North and in Space

A proprietary community in Quebec

Jesse Walker | 3.23.2015 12:01 PM

World

Jordan's Grassroots, Black-Market, DIY City

A dispatch from the Zaatari refugee camp

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2014 8:10 AM

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Culture

Transforming a Tower

An abandoned real estate project becomes a hive of self-organized activity.

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Harbor Point and Baltimore's Taxpayer-Funded Edifice Complex

Todd Krainin | 1.8.2014 11:32 PM

Nanny State

Zoning Board Orders Dad to Destroy His Daughter's Birthday Present

The war on tree houses

Jesse Walker | 6.7.2013 10:42 AM

World

DIY Infrastructure in Egypt

A people-power revolution unleashes urban ingenuity.

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2013 3:02 PM

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Culture

Footbridge City

Jesse Walker | 4.2.2013 1:30 PM

Culture

Dutch Architect to Use World's Largest 3D Printer to Build House

Will have 12,000 square feet of floor space

Reason Staff | 1.23.2013 8:36 AM

Policy

Urban Renewal: The Board Game

An art project imagines city planning as a game.

Jesse Walker | 8.23.2012 11:22 AM

Politics

The Secret History of New York's Playgrounds

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2012 11:36 PM

Politics

Urban Design Hipsters Are Evil

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2011 5:10 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Bloggingheads: Matt Welch Talks DSK, Arnold, Architecture, and Google With Ann Althouse

Reason Staff | 5.18.2011 5:22 PM

Politics

New York Times: Those Silly Arabs! They Don't Even Know What Colors to Use!

Matt Welch | 5.16.2011 2:09 PM

Culture

Resilient Japan

Three lessons from the week's disasters

Jesse Walker | 3.16.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

The Rasta Man vs. the State

Jesse Walker | 3.15.2011 2:01 PM

Policy

Arcologies of Arabia

Jesse Walker | 9.27.2010 11:25 AM

Culture

Rebuilding Haiti's Houses

Jesse Walker | 4.22.2010 10:21 AM

Policy

When Columbus Discovered Modern Architecture

Private philanthropy transforms a small Midwestern town into an architectural marvel.

Radley Balko | 9.30.2009 4:30 PM

Culture

The Outsider Art of Community

Jesse Walker | 8.25.2009 12:01 PM

Culture

"We Can Wait Around For The State…Or We Can Go Out And Do Our Part"

Jeff Winkler | 4.9.2009 6:21 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: The Totalitarian Architect

Radley Balko | 3.30.2009 12:06 PM

Culture

Imagineering the Border

Jesse Walker | 3.24.2009 10:44 AM

Culture

Instant City: Just Add Water

Jesse Walker | 9.8.2008 3:02 PM

Economics

Not Your Father's Burbclave

Jesse Walker | 6.13.2008 4:09 PM

Policy

What Has Happened Down Here Is the Winds Have Changed

Jesse Walker | 5.20.2008 9:34 AM

Culture

Building Fuehrer in Alabama!

Nick Gillespie | 3.14.2008 8:37 AM

Politics

Can't Sleep—Building Will Eat Me

Jesse Walker | 3.11.2008 12:50 PM

Policy

Straw Bale Construction Camo

Jesse Walker | 2.4.2008 9:24 AM

Politics

Hotel Terminus

Jesse Walker | 2.1.2008 10:03 AM

Culture

Aboriginal Revisionism

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2007 11:35 AM

Politics

Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the American Institute of Architects

Jesse Walker | 9.27.2007 3:41 PM

Politics

Fear of a Black Pedestrian

Jesse Walker | 3.5.2007 5:23 PM

Policy

Designing Rules

Making room for different tastes

Virginia Postrel | 10.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Trashing Trailer Parks

No mobile homes?

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

In a State's Eye

Jesse Walker | 5.1.1999 12:00 AM

Architecture

Arcology

The city in the image of man

Dick Pierce | 4.1.1972 12:00 PM

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