Aging in Place: For America’s older adults, access to housing is a question of race and class
America is on the cusp of a senior housing crisis. As the baby-boom generation enters…
Topic Health
Health can be a powerful lens for analyzing design and planning priorities. Investigations of the many links between health and the built environment—from air quality and food access to housing and mobility—reveal the power of design to support health and healing in preemptive and progressive ways.
Smart Toilet Paper
by Anesta Iwan (MDE ’19) — Recipient of the Outstanding Design Engineering Project Award…
Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility
Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility explores several evolving narratives on the spaces and politics of fertility, triggered by the “heartbeat bill,” which recently passed into law in states such as Mississippi, Kentucky, and Georgia to criminalize abortions from as early as six…
The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises
African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…
Student work: Mining an emerging area of dementia studies, Alicia Valencia encourages memory-care facilities to embrace aesthetic play
Children may be celebrated for their non-rational thoughts, but society expects that adults will use…
Exhibition Lecture: Yael Bartana
Please join us for a lecture by Yael Bartana, marking the opening of the exhibition …
At the Gardner Museum, Big Plans draws on landscape architecture’s progressive, reform-minded roots
By the time Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. founded the world’s first landscape architecture program at…
Democratizing Miami’s Healthcare Economy: Anchoring Growth in Overtown
by Syed Ali (MUP ’19) and Muniba Ahmad (MUP ’19) As Miami reaches for an ever…
Work in Progress: Soledad Patiño’s fishing villages
Soledad Patiño (MAUD ’20) describes her final project for the option studio “Extreme…
Climate change, “climigration,” and the Rust Belt: The New York Times joins Jesse Keenan for a look at the future of Duluth
Faced with a rapidly changing climate, where might millions of Americans relocate to escape newly…