When Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney started working to design the downtown riverwalk in 2001, people looked at the Chicago River like they do an alley — something to be avoided. But on warm, ...

Throughout my early life, my father would get up at 4:30 in the morning, six days a week, for his job as a contractor. I knew his work was taxing from seeing his coarse hands and tired eyes after he ...

When the city of Minneapolis set out in 2010 to redesign the 40-year-old Peavey Plaza, a lawsuit over the historic nature of the concrete park shut those plans down. But could more robust community ...

Re: “Finding a new path in a pandemic: How one Seattle architect went from mansions to tiny homes” [Dec. 3, Local]: I choked up reading about the rapport between Juliette Dubroca and the carpenters ...

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Humans are social creatures, and as far back as our existence goes — whether in a cave or in a metropolis — we have lived negotiating between two realms, the private and the public. A healthy society ...

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