Unlike those location-bound festivals, Detty December involves the entire city of Lagos, from the upscale beaches of Victoria ...

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Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing to keep your eyes and ...

When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

In the vernacular world, one describes what a thing is. In archispeak, one describes what a thing signifies. Floors are no ...

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience.

For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in correcting a nettlesome part of the theatergoing experience. For all the good it has done, the ADA has had limited success in ...

New York City is the center of capitalism in the U.S., if not the world, with the churning of real estate deals being to New York what cars once were to Detroit. It is therefore no surprise that the ...

In my long and embattled relationship with Frank Gehry when I was the design critic for the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s and then, after that, for public radio and television, one memorable incident ...