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Christopher Alexander died on March 17, leaving behind a towering legacy of influence on the fields of architecture, planning, and urban design.

A video tour of artist Rehab El Sadek's exhibition "Pattern Language" at Women & Their Work in Austin, Texas.

Has pandemic homeworking put paid to the high-rise? Oliver Wainwright on the staying power of tall buildings

By Michael S. Hopkins Correspondent After the pandemic upended so much, even the weirdest things – pig races, machete juggling, fried banana stands – are normalizing.  Yes, we’re talking about the fair, here again after a pandemic-induced hiatus. And if not in your county or state, perhaps the next one over. Fairs are one of humanity’s oldest traditions, and for those making the trek to attend one, it can invoke “archetypal narratives that we intuitively crave, the tale...

Originally published in December, 2020. Thanks to prolonged isolation, we now experience much of our lives online, but disinformation, polarization over the reality of the pandemic, and politics have led to a less than healthy virtual environment. Deb Roy, a professor at MIT and the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, has many ideas about how to better design these spaces in order to mitigate their potentially harmful effects. His research aims to find ways to reimagine social networks, ...

The Marthas Vineyard Times Garden Notes: Getting our gardens ready It’s still a bit early, but hope springs eternal. Buds of hellebore Ivory Prince emerge through a blanket of fallen leaves. — Susan Safford Under February’s Snow Moon, our cold soil underlain with clay seems to be the last on the Island to lose its snow cover. However, even here, snowdrops are advancing, and the hellebores are covered with fat pink buds. A glance to the shrubbery and tree tops reveals brighter ...

The Laws of Settlements book available for free online! Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The Laws of Settlements and continues to propel my research on landscape—a term that I use to describe the complex and continuous dialogue between people and non-human natural systems.  It was a question that I thought—and continue to believe—belongs to everybody: one whose answer is ...