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Smart Cities: Buggy and Brittle

What if the smart cities of the future are chock full of bugs?

by ANTHONY TOWNSEND

Designing for the Elements

An artist and a writer talk about the slippery relations among art, architecture, and language; the powers of chance, gravity, and weather; and the seductions of the model and the mock-up.

by KATRÍN SIGURÐARDÓTTIR

Shade

It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers.

by SAM BLOCH

The iUrbanisms of Los Angeles

For ambitious L.A. architects, city talk has gone deeply out of fashion. Yet insightful protagonists continue to seek a better future for L.A. architecture vis-à-vis L.A. urbanism.

by JOE DAY