A City's Surface Reflects Its Inequities
With the multiplying risks of urban heat and the pandemic, a city's streets and sidewalks tend to highlight vulnerabilities in urban communities.
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Q&A: From Podcast to Print, Roman Mars Discusses The 99% Invisible City
The new illustrated publication captures the endearing quirkiness of the podcast, which inspired it. Metropolis speaks with host, creator, and coauthor, Roman Mars.
Welcome to the Agrihood
Middlebrook, Iowa’s first agrihood, blends urban and rural elements to create a residential development that captures the spirit of farm life.
From the British Melting Pot, "New London Fabulous" Emerges
The slew of recent projects emphasize color’s capacity to bring joy to the public sphere. Just don’t call it a movement.
Wheeler Kearns Architects Designs a Home for This Chicago Nonprofit
The Night Ministry, a Chicago housing and outreach nonprofit, needed space that could accommodate guests and clients, in addition to its 50 staff and volunteers.
A Temporary Shelter Addresses L.A.’s Homeless Crisis Through Surface and Color
Lehrer Architects designed the Aetna Street Bridge Home on a tight timeline and budget while centering values of dignity that's deep-rooted in the firm's practice.
Game Changers 2020: Itai Palti and Liam Young on the Role of Tech in Creating Responsive Cities
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Itai Palti and Liam Young discuss how tech can help build stronger relationships between cities and their inhabitants, both human and machine.
Game Changers 2020: WXY and Future Green on Collaborative Urbanism
Next in our annual Game Changers series, Claire Weisz of WXY and David Seiter of Future Green discuss the complexities of designing within New York's diverse biomes and histories.
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
In her new book, Despina Stratigakos tells the story of how Nazi architects and planners began to build a Nordic empire in Norway during World War II.
From a Complicated Present, Urban Reuse Parks Look to the Future
Metropolis catches up with the High Line Network, a consortium of North American reuse projects that has been sharing notes and best practices through the pandemic.
Richard Sennett and Pablo Sendra on Mutual Aid and Density in Times of Urban Crisis
Metropolis spoke with the pair about their new book, which expounds on the bottom-up, accordion-like features that make cities resilient.
Can a City Be Feminist?
Upon the release today of her new book Feminist City, Leslie Kern catches up with Metropolis on how cities can be more equitable for all genders.
On this Fourth of July, Remember that Public Space is Democracy's Great Stage
Making public space unwelcome is a perversion of its purpose, writes ASLA president Wendy Miller in this op-ed. Too often over the past few weeks, the central promise of the civic realm has been turned on its head.
The Pandemic and Protests Have Highlighted Just How Unequal Our Cities Are
With a new urban crisis surfacing, designers from around the world propose radical changes to transportation, cooperative living, and public space.
With the Reissue of Reyner Banham's Classic, Tracing the Megastructural Moment
The recent reissue of Banham's Megastructure helps mine the typology's precedents and points toward the ambitious movement's contemporary heirs.
In Mexico City, Designers Join Forces to Help the Underprivileged during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The capital's robust design community is responding to the health crisis with creative action.
In Small Town Appalachia, Researchers Find an "Evolution Towards Resilience"
Columbia University students found consensus around the post-carbon economy and riverfront rehabilitation among Appalachian locals.
This Bridge in Providence Was Designed as Public Space
A part of Rhode Island's extensive Iway project, the infrastructure supports a pedestrian pathway, gardens, and occupiable spaces.
At Rem Koolhaas’s Countryside, the Medium Doesn’t Fit the Message—If There is One
The memelike exhibition will please crowds of most stripes, but it’s doomed by an excess of unorganized, sentimentalist content.
In the Driverless City, How Will Our Streets Be Used?
A glut of speculative plans reimagine the future streetscape. But is it a road to nowhere?
