Other stories by Aaron Betsky

• Spacial Politics and Food

  Food service is crowding out retail in well-to-do parts of America's downtowns, while poor city areas suffer from a lack of food availability.

• Utopian and Dystopian City Models by Three Artists

  Carl Laubin, Cyprien Gaillard, and Nicolas Moulin each make art that envisions the cities of their (sometimes dark) dreams.

• Using Pixels to Make Fantasy Structures

  Recently, cultural critic Celia McGee sent me a link to a blog about real and imaginary library architecture in Minecraft.

• New Arbat Urbanism

  Aaron Betsky explores the New Arbat, a dream of Soviet urban planning whose design and execution spanned the history of the Soviet Union.

• L.A. Exhibition Shows What Might Have Been

  Sam Lubell’s “Never Built Los Angeles” now showing at the city’s Museum of Architecture and Design.

• How Architecture Aids Our Memories

  Classicism, and really all of architecture, is a continual remaking of a time and place based on fragments we draw from many sources in order to create something radically new.

• Downtowns Go Residential in Rotterdam, Cincinnati, and Maryland

  How much control should the government have in reinventing our urban cores? Aaron Betsky says more is better.

• 'The New York Times' Overlooks Architects in Sustainability Conference

  April's conference on energy and sustainable cities, hosted by 'The New York Times,' will not feature any architects as keynote speakers.

• Architectural Drawing's Renaissance

  We might not be able to borrow, scrimp, or build ourselves out of our architectural mess, but we will be able to draw ourselves out of it, Aaron Betsky says.

• As the Nature of Work Changes, So Does Architecture

  When more and more people work from home and only come in to the office for meetings, what will our office architecture become? Aaron Betsky ponders whether both work and architecture are disappearing.