Architecture

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

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

U.A.E.

The United Martian Emirates

Space-colonization dreams from the Middle East

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2017 10:05 AM

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

Architecture

Architecture, Fate, and Utopia

The right way for an experiment to fail

Jesse Walker | 4.7.2016 1:55 PM

Proprietary Communities

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

A proprietary community in Quebec

Jesse Walker | 3.23.2015 12:01 PM

Jordan

Jordan's Grassroots, Black-Market, DIY City

A dispatch from the Zaatari refugee camp

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2014 8:10 AM

Squatters

Transforming a Tower

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

Jesse Walker | 1.29.2014 4:30 PM

Zoning

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

The war on tree houses

Jesse Walker | 6.7.2013 10:42 AM

Egypt

DIY Infrastructure in Egypt

A people-power revolution unleashes urban ingenuity.

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2013 3:02 PM

Hong Kong

Footbridge City

Jesse Walker | 4.2.2013 1:30 PM

The Netherlands

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

Urban Renewal

Urban Renewal: The Board Game

An art project imagines city planning as a game.

Jesse Walker | 8.23.2012 11:22 AM

History

The Secret History of New York's Playgrounds

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2012 11:36 PM

Land Use

Urban Design Hipsters Are Evil

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2011 5:10 PM

Media

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

Reason Staff | 5.18.2011 5:22 PM

Media

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

Matt Welch | 5.16.2011 2:09 PM

Japan

Resilient Japan

Three lessons from the week's disasters

Jesse Walker | 3.16.2011 4:30 PM

Regulation

The Rasta Man vs. the State

Jesse Walker | 3.15.2011 2:01 PM

Automobiles

Arcologies of Arabia

Jesse Walker | 9.27.2010 11:25 AM

Architecture

Rebuilding Haiti's Houses

Jesse Walker | 4.22.2010 10:21 AM

Regulation

When Columbus Discovered Modern Architecture

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

Radley Balko | 9.30.2009 4:30 PM

Proprietary Communities

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

Architecture

Briefly Noted: The Totalitarian Architect

Radley Balko | 3.30.2009 12:06 PM

Mexico

Imagineering the Border

Jesse Walker | 3.24.2009 10:44 AM

Google

Instant City: Just Add Water

Jesse Walker | 9.8.2008 3:02 PM

Proprietary Communities

Not Your Father's Burbclave

Jesse Walker | 6.13.2008 4:09 PM

Land Use

What Has Happened Down Here Is the Winds Have Changed

Jesse Walker | 5.20.2008 9:34 AM

Architecture

Building Fuehrer in Alabama!

Nick Gillespie | 3.14.2008 8:37 AM

Conspiracy Theories

Can't Sleep—Building Will Eat Me

Jesse Walker | 3.11.2008 12:50 PM

Land Use

Straw Bale Construction Camo

Jesse Walker | 2.4.2008 9:24 AM

North Korea

Hotel Terminus

Jesse Walker | 2.1.2008 10:03 AM

Australia

Aboriginal Revisionism

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2007 11:35 AM

Navy

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

Jesse Walker | 9.27.2007 3:41 PM

Architecture

Fear of a Black Pedestrian

Jesse Walker | 3.5.2007 5:23 PM

Land Use

Designing Rules

Making room for different tastes

Virginia Postrel | 10.1.2003 12:00 AM

Land Use

Trashing Trailer Parks

No mobile homes?

Jesse Walker | 8.1.2002 12:00 AM

History

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