Lawrence Vale

Washington has long struggled to reconcile lofty national ideals with quotidian urban interests. No part of the capital better reveals this tension than the Federal Triangle.

A decade after the Indonesian tsunami, a devastated city rebuilds. What can rehousing initiatives teach us about the ongoing struggle for urban resilience?

Portuguese translation of “The Displacement Decathlon,” published last month in Places.

Olympian struggles for affordable housing from Atlanta to Rio de Janeiro.

Chicago has demolished its high-rise public housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income, new urbanist style communities. But where have the displaced tenants gone?

The Shanghai Expo is a study in superlatives, from the national pavilions to the media restrictions to the record-breaking queues.