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Four ways to develop healthy, affordable homes
Climate Impact
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Glass buildings are threatening the world’s most beautiful birds. These design moves can save them.
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How a little robot helped rebuild a camp for the blind
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A new generation of career and technical education is readying students for a rapidly shifting workforce
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The city of tomorrow will have way fewer cars
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How to design sensitive, responsive environments that support everyone
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Inclusive design should never be a program. It’s a mindset.
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A small Canadian coffee chain shows its flower power
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This old house: Rethinking the retrofit
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How design supports a more holistic approach to training
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988 is here: it’s time to respond
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Why it’s time to rethink everything you thought you knew about museums
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On post-COVID city streets, what’s the right way to handle a right-of-way?
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A giant indoor lab that simulates life-size public spaces could hold the key to mobility equity
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Like magic, a stadium canopy “floats” above the stands
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Three cities, three ways urban design can create social equity
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Move over, density: equity and livability are the new urban design drivers
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This empathic design solution gives Angelenos without a home a dignified place to sleep
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A nurse’s thoughts on safer environments for frontline patients and staff
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The transcendent detail in the Girl Scouts’ Camp Lakota
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The best plan of care: a nurse’s insights on triage and shorter wait times
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The business case for healthy schools
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Downtown Minneapolis’ Living Room Gets a Makeover
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Innovate or perish: New strategies and higher education’s future
High Tech’s Higher Purpose
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Why the ‘gold standard’ of data collection is no longer enough
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Affordable housing can and should be beautiful, too
Future of Design
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Community centers don’t look how they used to—why that’s a good thing
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‘We’re the vanguard of humanity:’ Q&A with Mide Akinsade
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Hands-on learning: designing for a more resilient economy
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The affordable housing crunch—how can colleges and universities help?
Future of Design
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What’s next for retail design?
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Pump to plug: Where our gas stations are making the most radical advances
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Against all odds, these projects found silver linings
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How should cities move forward with drastically altered commuter habits?
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The look and feel of education is changing, with students to benefit
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This university took COVID response into their own hands, with gorgeous results
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COVID changed college campuses, and there are lessons to be learned
Working Well
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How one medical school is building stronger connections with its students
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Human-forward healthcare design can change how you feel going to the doctor
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Education from education: what modern schools say about design at large
Future of Design
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Topping the tower: Dallas’ newest groundscraper is realigning the workplace
Future of Design
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Breathing life into the U.S.’s dying malls through community-based programming
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Telehealth is making healthcare more equitable—here’s how
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How might airport design change after COVID-19?
Future of Design
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How can retail ensure its survival after the pandemic?
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A COVID-19 mobile testing solution
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The guiding edge: designing a camp for the blind
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