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For the Love of People

Tiffany Haddish hopes to deliver food and culinary education to South LA

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High Tech’s Higher Purpose

The high-tech tool behind Orlando’s makeover

Climate Impact

Can landscape design help communities promote social justice and climate resilience?

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Project Spotlight

Beijing’s new performing arts complex redirects the city’s cultural flow

Head to the Heart

85 years after opening, this school remains a paragon of child-centered architecture

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For the Love of People

This mixed-income community is helping ease LA’s housing crisis

Climate Impact

How struggling malls became new destinations for health, fun, and learning

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For the Love of People

Designed to foster diversity, this school leaves an enduring legacy

Future of Design

How does high-speed rail strengthen communities?

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For the Love of People

3 must-see places in the U.S. give voice to Black history, culture, and civil rights.

Climate Impact

4 ways prefabrication benefits communities and the environment

For the Love of People

Can university housing save downtowns? This law school is giving it a try

For the Love of People

How inclusive design can strengthen communities and improve lives

Future of Design

How street-level activation can transform cities and spark economic success

For the Love of People

Everyday architecture shouldn’t be banal. It should elevate and enrich the human experience.

Future of Design

The U.S. federal infrastructure bill presents a once-in-a-lifetime chance to transform national transit

For the Love of People

5 design tips for helping everyone on campus feel like they belong

Project Spotlight

A new higher education building inspires wonder and learning

Project Spotlight

A creative community grows in an old San Francisco shipyard

Head to the Heart

What the next generation of innovation districts is all about

Head to the Heart

Hospital design should care for health workers and patients in equal measure

High Tech’s Higher Purpose

How digital innovations are breaking barriers and opening space

Climate Impact

Glass buildings are threatening the world’s most beautiful birds. These design moves can save them.

High Tech’s Higher Purpose

How a little robot helped rebuild a camp for the blind

Head to the Heart

A new generation of career and technical education is readying students for a rapidly shifting workforce

Future of Design

The city of tomorrow will have way fewer cars

For the Love of People

How to design sensitive, responsive environments that support everyone

For the Love of People

Inclusive design should never be a program. It’s a mindset.

Project Spotlight

A small Canadian coffee chain shows its flower power

Climate Impact

This old house: Rethinking the retrofit

For the Love of People

Why it’s time to rethink everything you thought you knew about museums

For the Love of People

On post-COVID city streets, what’s the right way to handle a right-of-way?

Head to the Heart

A giant indoor lab that simulates life-size public spaces could hold the key to mobility equity

Project Spotlight

Like magic, a stadium canopy “floats” above the stands

For the Love of People

Three cities, three ways urban design can create social equity

For the Love of People

Four ways to develop healthy, affordable homes

For the Love of People

Move over, density: equity and livability are the new urban design drivers

For the Love of People

This empathic design solution gives Angelenos without a home a dignified place to sleep

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