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2025年1月6日 · What if the housing crisis wasn’t about the cost of lumber, labor, or land, but about bureaucracy? Imagine a world where, instead of developers navigating an obstacle course of entitlements, permits, and approvals, cities themselves took on the challenge of creating the housing they want and need. The good news: there are two models that show how U.S. cities can fast-track high-quality ...

2024年11月11日 · Climate-change impacts ar e rapidly intensifying. Recent events like the catastrophic hurricanes Helene and Milton, wildfires in Australia and the Amazon rainforest, severe flooding in the U.S., Spain, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia, and extreme heat waves across the U.S., Europe, and Africa demonstrate that the need for resilient planning and design solutions has never been more urgent ...

2025年1月21日 · Cole Rozwadowski Essays Space to Dream: Reflections and Projections from a New Generation of Designers 01.21.2025 By Alex Glick, Cole Rozwadowski

2024年11月27日 · The Common Edge Climate Change Project It is beyond dispute that climate change is already affecting the weather, geography, food production, and human behavior in negative ways. Sadly, though, neither the federal nor the state governments are doing much to educate and prepare the U.S. public for the inevitable challenges to come. Common Edge Readies Itself for a Leading Role in Climate Change ...

2024年11月26日 · Ever open to change and a challenge, in September 1983, I donned the cloak of the newly anointed urban design critic of the Los Angeles Times to principally cover architecture. But also planning, preservation, and redevelopment, in effect whatever shaped and misshaped the built environment, with a focus on Southern California. As my mixed media writings up to then should have clearly indicated ...

6 天之前 · The AEC industry continues to confront our environmental challenges—never mind what the headlines might suggest.

2021年12月30日 · Common Edge had its best year in 2021: Readership grew by more than 66%! Thank you to everyone who visited the site, whether for the first time or the hundredth. Here are the 10 most popular posts from the past 12 months: Not Everything Is “Architecture” Marianela D’Aprile’s razor-sharp and glorious takedown of obtuse, apolitical design theory. 2. My 15-Minute City: Upper West Side ...

2022年12月27日 · Common Edge had its second best year in 2022, reaching nearly 250,000 readers. Thank you to everyone who visited the site, whether for the first time or the hundredth. And thank you to all of our contributors—we wouldn’t exist without you. Here are the 10 most popular posts from the past 12 months. (Editor’s note: this 2017 piece by Ann Sussman and Katie Chen remains of continuing ...