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Bernie Sanders says climate change will hit communities of color hardest. His climate plan is by far the most progressive of all the candidates. #DemDebate
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. @AOC has a plan to address the housing shortage. She wants to flood local, state, and federal governments with YIMBYs. @dianabudds writes
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. @mcmansionhell remembers architect Ricardo Bofill, who shifted the idea of public housing away from bleak tower blocks towards vivid, otherworldly spaces of discovery
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Breaking: @AOC and Squad unveil People’s Housing Platform, a collective platform tackling tenant rights, housing assistance, real estate speculation, public housing construction and more
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Ex-football star Warrick Dunn has quietly given away 139 homes to single parents @WDCharities http://t.co/HUHiFLDRIz http://t.co/ZzAeYpObyk
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The average price per square foot of a Trump property in 2016 was $3,346. In 2020 it was $1,619
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New York streets are a mess. So we recruited a team of designers and consultants, led by the architecture firm WXY, to imagine what a comprehensive transformation would produce on one Manhattan block. Read it here:
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From digital inspections to virtual home tours, take a look at what it’s like to buy a home in seven U.S. cities right now.
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The Upper East Side Apartment That Never Left 1979
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Robert Mueller submitted his report wearing a hat familiar to modern architecture fans. Here's the story behind the Sea Ranch—including the logo.
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The future is here: It only takes 10 minutes for this house to build itself.
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'Stranger Things' is a love letter to an era when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes
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Ex-NFL star Warrick Dunn has helped provide homes for 145 single parents:
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61 mayors adopt Paris climate accord after U.S. pulls out.
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New York streets are a mess. So we recruited a team of designers and consultants, led by the architecture firm WXY, to imagine what a comprehensive transformation would produce on one Manhattan block. Read it here:
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What it takes to put up the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree! 🎄 🙌
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All of the people who fled the city over the past three years should have left behind a surplus of empty, habitable apartments. What happened to them? And why is it so difficult and expensive to lease one now?
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What do America’s streets say about the state of our country in 2016? Watch our Story on @instagram , and read it at .
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We set out to find neighborhoods in eight American cities for you to thrive in this year, all known for their amenities and architectural styles, affordability and access to transit. Check them out—you might fall in love with a new home:
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Meet our 2016 Groundbreakers, six architects shaping the way our world functions, on our @instagram story!
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Where was your first NYC apartment, and how much was the rent?
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See inside a Bed-Stuy brownstone with tons of (well-preserved) hand-carved wood, on the market now
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The department store windows along Fifth Avenue in New York city are dressed in their holiday best!
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Wondering how you can make the world a more sustainable place?
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In the 1950s, LA created its very own architecture style: Googie!
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The Guggenheim raises geometry to an art form.
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Travel through time—and the city—on NYC's holiday nostalgia train. 🚂
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How does David Rockwell approach stage set design? Watch our Story on @instagram , and listen at to find out.
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New skyscraper in China has a 350-foot waterfall cascading down its facade.
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Missy Cummings, who has been studying autonomous vehicles for longer than Tesla has been around, seems to make Elon Musk very nervous, @awalkerinLA reports
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These vintage-inspired space travel posters from NASA are great.
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Elizabeth Warren is the first candidate tonight to spell it out—cars are one of the country's biggest sources of carbon pollution. #ClimateTownHall
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Panasonic designed human blinders to block out open-plan office distraction.
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Think: vibrant colors, a myriad of materials, daring shapes, and over-the-top signage.
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A snowy owl was spotted today in Central Park for the first time since 1890
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After each Mets win, Dan Abrams ( @athletelogos ) creates graphics that honor Shea Stadium’s old neon signs. Now he’s proposing to re-create them at Citi Field, @joedelessio writes
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100 years of Bauhaus: The short-lived school that changed design forever.
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Rare books + marble = magic. 📚
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Only 400 black women have ever become licensed architects in the U.S. Tiffany Brown wants to change that.
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8 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including @Guggenheim and @Fallingwater , were named @UNESCO #WorldHeritage sites yesterday, a huge global honor for cultural sites
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One of L.A.’s most important pieces of architecture, Julia Morgan's decadent Herald Examiner Building is finally restored after being walled off from the public for three decades
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This A-frame can fold up and move with you!
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Building houses that grow with us: @mcmansionhell on why we need to design homes for our lives, not our stuff.
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Thanks to @Coachella + @Instagram for a first peek at the biggest piece of marble in cat form. http://t.co/QjGCmfEKgB http://t.co/cM7cfjb0pf
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Tbh, we'd go apartment hunting with @DesusNice and @TheKidMero any day.
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"Lawns, by acreage, are the nation’s largest irrigated crop, surpassing corn," says @mcmansionhell 's Kate Wagner.
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. @SenDuckworth : ‘Offensive’ law would weaken landmark ADA
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"With an inventory shortage and a healthy pool of buyers, the pandemic in Atlanta is causing more of a temporary slowdown than a Great Recession-like slump."
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Scooter startup Bird plans to fund protected bike lanes
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If you have any info about Harry’s mysterious couch, please let us know
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"Why do so many of us feel dissatisfied with our perfectly fine houses?" asks @mcmansionhell .
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. @awalkerinLA talked with @coribush about the Bus Rapid Transit Act, an effort to allocate $12 billion in federal funding annually to bus rapid transit projects where buses run more reliably in dedicated lanes in order to address transit equity in cities
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Design nerds rejoice: the NASA Standards Manual is available again
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Group of 8 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings named @UNESCO #WorldHeritage Sites this morning, rare examples of modern architecture added to list of global cultural sites
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Why is the floor of the Oculus already crumbling? @heybonanos explains
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📣 Introducing the new Curbed, a letter from Editor-in-Chief @kelseykeith :
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Overnight, LAPD fenced out 100 people who had made a home at Echo Park Lake. Why? Because the city wants to repaint some bathrooms. @awalkerinLA reports
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The brand-new 6th Street Bridge over the L.A. River was supposed to be a symbol of the city’s move away from a car-centric past and toward a future of more walkers and cyclists. @awalkerinLA explains what went wrong
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First, examine your habits at home.
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This is what a sunken cruise ship looks like after 4 years of being submerged.
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Harvard has unveiled a massive Bauhaus collection online.
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Tiny living doesn't have to mean giving up the comforts of full-sized houses.
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Is it possible to see 150 New York City landmarks via a mini train? At the The New York Botanical Garden it is! 🌱🚂🗽
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Are conversation pits making a comeback?
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After each Mets win, Dan Abrams ( @athletelogos ) creates graphics that honor Shea Stadium’s old neon signs. Now he’s proposing to re-create them at Citi Field, @joedelessio writes
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For the past six months, Denver's STAR program has been dispatching social workers instead of cops on nonemergency calls with astoundingly good outcomes, @awalkerinla reports
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Read our full list of 101 changes here: Illustrations by @itsleillo
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Watch these faded signs return to glory—if even for a moment.
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. @nymag 's annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue this year is a wake for 500 lost businesses that were, at least in their own corners of the city, essential
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The @BodegaBoys , @DesusNice and @TheKidMero , on growing up in the Bronx.
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Workers at Snøhetta, the global design firm behind the renovation of 550 Madison and its lush public garden as well as One Vanderbilt’s mildly hallucinogenic Summit, are filing to form a union. @cliomiso writes
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Happy Diwali! This ornate temple in New Jersey took 4.7 million hours to complete.
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Here’s what the first Tesla solar roofs look like in the wild.
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Tile design uses optical illusion to slow people down.
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Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies
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London is tackling homelessness with repurposed storage containers.
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Why inclusive cities start with safe streets.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum gets the Lego treatment.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City may be 138 years old, but it still looks incredible thanks to an extensive restoration!
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Today is Mies van der Rohe's birthday. This master of modernism actually had no formal training.
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Watch how the world has changed since 1984.
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The trifecta: a 3D-printed tiny house that's only $10k.
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Then, see what you can do within your community.
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7 ugly urban underpasses now functioning as public parks.
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Theo Henderson’s podcast is changing L.A. city policy. For 7 years, he’s lived in a city park
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This midcentury designer created Instagram bait before Instagram was a thing.
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There' a reason they call @Dianne4NYC the tenants' candidate. @ValeRicciulli reports
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Definitive proof nobody did costume parties like the Bauhaus.
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Are portable prefabs a thing?
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Happy birthday to the late Zaha Hadid. We're looking back at her best architectural work. 📷Hufton & Crow. @ZHA_News
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Are you considering buying a home this spring? Read this first.
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Happy 88th birthday, Frank Gehry! 🎂🎈
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This tiny house is heated by bitcoin mining.
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8 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including @Fallingwater and @Guggenheim were just named @UNESCO #worldheritage sites this morning. It's a global honor, one that's rarely been given to modern architecture.
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Lyft and Uber serve low-income communities better than taxis, says a major @ucla_its study.
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Dutch city transforms over 300 bus stops with bee-friendly green roofs.
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The incredible career of Frank Lloyd Wright in 45 essential works
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Doc Brown's mansion in Back To the Future has decorative walls that conceal double uses, presented by Toyota.
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The 20 most beautiful libraries in the U.S.
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