Historian Enrique Ramirez looks to the long history of linear cities to understand Saudi Arabia's desert experiment.

The loss of a 1955 Modernist gem demonstrates that preservation cannot rely on the kindness of strangers, even of the super-rich.

Forum: As proposals expand in scale and scope, and public spending increases, large-scale pro sports developments fall flat as gestures of urban goodwill.

Memorials and museums are moving from confrontation to comfort, diluting the past's potency.

Expansive and unprogrammed indoor public spaces offer an antidote to the commercialization of contemporary cities.

Throughout the U.S., cities are revitalizing their aging Beaux-Arts and Midcentury Modern civic centers through community-driven design.

Forum: Reforming U.S. building codes to permit single-stair apartment buildings would facilitate cost-effective and higher-density housing.

Forum: An ambitious city-building initiative expresses conflicting desires through architecture, writes Pansy Schulman.

Forum: MVRDV’s transformation of the pyramid into a symbol of Albanian progress misses its mark, argues Skender Luarasi.

Forum: Susan Nigra Snyder and George E. Thomas argue that historic districting is a form of social injustice.