S1: This is KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bracken in for Jade Hindman. Ahead , we hear a conversation about the power of design to shape our lives and communities , from housing to transportation , ...

Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...

Urban environments have become living laboratories where human design choices directly influence the climate we experience ...

Designers: Alex San Diego, Mia Lehrer and Eden Ferry at Studio-MLA’s Boyle Heights office. (Photo by Thomas Wasper) Founded downtown in 1997, Studio-MLA temporarily resided in Koreatown before ...

Urban beautification campaigns are usually sold to local residents as a way to improve their daily lives. Design elements — from lighting systems to signs, benches, bollards, fountains and planters, ...

This course surveys recent prominent theories of urban spatial design-ways of reading, understanding, and designing urban space-and asks: What works and what doesn't, and why? It is an introductory ...

At a historical moment when industrialization and urbanization are continuing at a fast and predatory pace, we need to design and produce spaces that can adapt to new realities. Based on this need, ...

Across America’s cities, a quiet but powerful transformation is taking place: rooftops are being turned into gardens, playgrounds, and peaceful green sanctuaries. As municipalities adapt to the ...

Step into the heart of Shenzhen and experience a quiet, futuristic street surrounded by sleek glass buildings and greenery.

The term appears to have originated in the business sector, with some mentions in the early 1990s and its popularization in the 2000s, with C.K. Prahalad and Venkatram Ramaswamy’s article in the ...