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Why the world is obsessed with midcentury modern design

It didn’t start with "Mad Men." But the hit television drama definitely fanned the flames.

• From Curbed NY

What will it take to bring Spring Creek back to life?

The small waterway on Brooklyn’s outer edge has been on the decline for decades. Can it be saved?

• From Curbed NY

The death and life of mom-and-pops

Outlining a few solutions to staunch the impending death of local retail.

• From Curbed NY

Five years after Hurricane Sandy, NYC's coastal communities remain vulnerable

Years of work still lie ahead before the coast of New York City will be ready for another major storm.

• From Curbed NY

In Queens, chronic flooding and sea-level rise go hand in hand

As "sunny-day flooding" increases in the communities near Jamaica Bay, residents seek solutions

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The new midcentury modern

To meet demand, developers are bringing back the ‘midcentury’ home.

• From Curbed NY

The ever-changing Bowery

New York City’s oldest street is more than its skid row reputation.

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Houston after Harvey

The country’s largest city without zoning laws is at a development crossroads

• From Curbed LA

The town once known as ‘the Black Palm Springs’

How the end of Jim Crow, a wave of art students, and an ever-growing landfill changed the rural town that thrived as an African-American resort community.

• From Curbed LA

How Metro is responding to LA’s homelessness crisis

Can new tactics fill the gaps?

• First Person

My 20-mile walk around Portland

`Walking is how I’ve come to understand not only cities, but my place within them`

• From Curbed Philly

How I-95 broke Philly’s waterfront (and what the city is doing to fix it)

The city is dreaming big and small along the Delaware River.

• From Curbed NY

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Ex Libris’ is a vivid portrait of NYC’s libraries

The filmmaker’s 41st documentary is an exploration of both the library system and the vital role it plays in the life of the city.

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Mobile homeland

Whatever you call it—mobile home, trailer park, manufactured housing—the retro living module is undergoing a renaissance

• From Curbed Philly

An invisible walking tour of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Here are the forgotten stories of the buildings lost to the Parkway.

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Habitat 2.0

Moshe Safdie’s iconic Canadian complex makes a comeback.

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Creating the iconic Stahl House

Two dreamers, an architect, a photographer, and the making of America’s most famous house.

• From Curbed NY

Searching for New York City’s lost soul

A walk through the East Village with Vanishing New York’s Jeremiah Moss reveals how much the neighborhood—and the city—has changed.

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Mansplaining the city

Why are men driving the conversation about the future of our neighborhoods?

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Designing for the end of the world

From high-end safe rooms to bunkers and shelters being laid out in backyards and empty fields across the country, a growing number of Americans feel they need to be self-sustaining in a world of rising threats.

• From Curbed LA

The rise of ‘three-car garage rock’

How the tony suburbs of the West Valley launched early 2000s alternative rock.

Our fridges, ourselves

After moving in with an expat, writer Jessica Furseth learns how much of what we do, think, and prefer in our homes is culture, not nature.

• From Curbed NY

The manhole in the meadow

Why Prospect Park, 150 years later, is still America’s premiere example of manmade nature.

• Architecture

The rise of the McModern

McMansion Hell writer Kate Wagner on a new strain of modern houses for the masses, which marries the McMansion to architectural styles of the mid-to-late 20th century.

• From Curbed Philly

Saving South Philly’s churches

Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the U.S. and its neighborhoods are considered National Treasures. But do its old, sacred spaces stand a chance in this rapidly developing city?

• Architecture

Solving Salk’s mystery

How scientists lifted the shadow from Louis Kahn's most famous building.

• From Curbed LA

The Bradbury Building before ‘Blade Runner’

Before it was immortalized in countless movies, the fantastic building in Downtown Los Angeles was a bustling civic center that embraced all of the drama Los Angeles had to offer.

• From Curbed NY

Kayaking through Staten Island’s former Fresh Kills landfill

As the old dump is slowly converted into Freshkills Park, several projects are helping bring the natural world back into focus.

• From Curbed NY

Robert Moses’s Jones Beach

A photo tour of the planner’s first public-works project.

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A New Deal photographer’s forgotten Portland

Minor White’s photographs reveal a Portland you never knew existed.

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Frank Lloyd Wright at 150

The Curbed guide to the most famous architect in U.S. history

Usonia now

Is this experimental Frank Lloyd Wright community now just another Westchester suburb?

On the road with Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect’s annual pilgrimages between Wisconsin and Arizona combined his passions: cars, architecture, and the American landscape

Meet Marion Mahony Griffin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s best frenemy

The two architects are forever intertwined

Becoming Frank Lloyd Wright

Finding the origins of the architect’s famous work

• From Curbed NY

In Queens and Staten Island, two competing visions for New York's waterfront

As climate change reshapes NYC’s landscape, is it better to build up or scale back?

• From Curbed NY

A walking tour of 1767 New York

In the footsteps of the 250-year-old Ratzer Map