Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible?
Dec 23, 2024 · Let’s talk about education for a minute,” said Matthew Civello, CEO of Scanscraps, at a recent roundtable talk at the Conference of Climate and Compost at Baruch College in New York City. “I’ll just take a show of hands. How many people here today are familiar with alternate-side-of-the-street parking?” Civello’s question was met with laughter and a near-unanimous show of hands in ...
The ‘City of Yes’ Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess
On November 13, the New York City Council will vote on the third and final part of the City of Yes (COY) proposal from Mayor Eric Adams (and Big Real Estate). Called the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO), it has 1,386 pages of zoning changes that make it the most controversial and consequential section for the future shape of our streets, buildings, and neighborhoods.
Space to Dream: Reflections and Projections from a New …
Jan 21, 2025 · Architecture students don’t often get the chance to step back and consider our place in the trajectory of design, but deep reflection can bridge the ideals of academia with the realities of practice. In October, a Common Edge team led by Steven Bingler, Martin C. Pedersen, and Bobbie Hill came to the University of Virginia for a workshop meant to create space for these valuable reflections.
It’s Hard for Architects to Be Transparent About Fees
Nov 25, 2024 · It is hard for arc hitects to be transparent. As a profession, we’re shrouded in cliches, both internal and external: the Corbu glasses, the black garb, The Fountainhead.As a result, simple honesty about how we work can be complicated.
Design for Global Survival: The 2030 Palette – Common Edge
Nov 11, 2024 · 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.
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing ...
Jan 6, 2025 · Lindsay Sturman is co-founder of the Livable Communities Initiative. She's also the co-host of Bike Talk, a podcast and syndicated radio show that explores sustainable transportation and bike advocacy through conversations with experts, activists, and enthusiasts from across the world.
Contemporary Architecture and the Modern City – Common Edge
Aug 27, 2024 · O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested as within thy blessed borders today?”. Tom Wolfe wrote this in his 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House.The conflict between modern and traditional design has barely abated since, as is ...
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How Should Architects Respond to the L.A. Conflagration?
Jan 16, 2025 · Los Angeles h as experienced a hellish week-plus of wildfires that have destroyed thousands of buildings and uprooted countless lives. As of this writing, the fires continue to burn, and the death tolls are mounting. If the past is prologue, the brutal tragedies of this moment will be subjected to the wisdom of Rahm Emmanuel, who famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings - Common Edge
Mar 1, 2022 · Although it was originally published in 2019, this essay by Randy Nishimura, lightly updated, serves as a rebuttal of sorts to Duo Dickinson’s recent Common Edge piece,“ The Architectural Pandemic of the ‘Stick Frame Over Podium’ Building.”Dickinson likens the building type to a plague; Nishimura offers a contrarian’s perspective. A recent spate of …