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The Porch Puzzle
On the front porch, the desire to be neighborly butts up against the desire to be left alone.
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Bungalow Courts Make the Best Neighbors
The 350 that remain in L.A. are some of the city’s most desirable housing.
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Longform
Deep dives on cities, architecture, design, real estate, and urban planning.
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10 years. $20 million. Inside the fight to save Broad Beach.
Malibu homeowners banded together to address sea level rise. A decade later, they are at war with the city, the surfers, and each other.
Don’t blame dense cities for the spread of coronavirus
The pandemic has challenged my urbanist beliefs, but buildings aren’t responsible for human problems.
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Safe as houses
Americans have always designed our living spaces to respond to threats both real and imagined.
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Can a Neighborhood Become a Network?
The mutual-aid networks that have defined the COVID-19 pandemic are looking to the long term.
The radical possibilities of a box
How pioneering designer Louise Brigham found creativity in isolation.
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The house on Magnolia Street
Even before Moms 4 Housing was evicted from 2928 Magnolia, racism and capitalism shaped the home’s history.
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I’m adopting San Francisco storm drains—and naming them after women
On alleys named after men, I’m honoring some of my favorite women writers.
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What does a good megadevelopment look like?
Considering the future of megaprojects—and the future of New York City—through the lens of Sunnyside Yard
In the Hamptons, coronavirus heightens tensions
The spread of COVID-19 has heightened tensions between wealthy homeowners and year-round residents.
The green dream of Portland
Decades ago, Portland, Oregon established an image as the most environmentally friendly city in the world. But is the progressive city’s progress still too slow?
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Seven serene longreads about our homes
The house-hunting show we need right now, the rise of round furniture, and more.
Welcome to the agrihood
In these suburban subdivisions, farming is just another amenity.
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Inside the powerfully expressive world of maximalism
This vibrant and eclectic interior design style is one of the easiest to incorporate into your home.
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The living alone issue
Choosing to live by ourselves can feel freeing, calming, isolating, anxiety-inducing, or all of the above.
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The invention of the bachelor pad
Why are there still so few visions of comfortable, livable interiors for men?
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The teenagers who live alone
Getting one’s own place before 18 can be a crash course in independence.
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NYC has a plan to clean its sewage-filled waterways. Does it go far enough?
Critics say the latest plan to address sewage overflows in NYC, which dump millions of gallons of sewage into the city’s waterways every year, is "barely a drop in the bucket."
The case for keeping things
We live in a throwaway society, but our objects deserve better.
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When living apart keeps you together
For some couples, sharing their hearts doesn’t mean sharing a home.
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Cane furniture is back—but it never really left
In our tech-filled homes, the decidedly analog material endures.
How to end traffic
European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars.
How the country’s deadliest city for pedestrians plans to save lives with safer streets
In Orlando, ground zero of the pedestrian safety crisis, a mayor’s traffic reform goals are put to the test.
Sound and the city
Urban silence is increasingly endangered—and primarily available to those who can pay for it.
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Curbed New York’s 11 best longreads of 2019
Hudson Yards, the loss of neighborhood bars, and more
13 favorite Curbed longreads of 2019
The magic of estate sales, life in a converted school bus, how homeownership became part of the American dream, and more.
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A decade of destruction in New York City
New York City has lost countless cultural and historic institutions in the past decade
Should we still be building single-family homes?
Single-family homes are partly to blame for our housing mess, but they can also be a tool to solve our problems.
The bath bubble
With freestanding tubs, we’re embracing self-care, seeking status, and perhaps feeling a little lonely.
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Everyone has their own ‘Home Alone 2’
What role do movies play in helping us understand a version of New York that is no longer with us?
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Waiting Game: How Atlanta’s building boom can make homebuying a high-stakes wager
"We’ve lived in a lot of major cities before... We’ve never experienced anything like this."
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Exploring Staten Island’s hidden North Shore Branch, eyed for a new bus line
The MTA wants to build a new bus rapid transit line through a forgotten stretch of the Staten Island coastline
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The suburbs issue
As our suburbs become more like cities, they have one foot in the past and one in the future.
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Growing up in Levittown
The quintessential suburb was built on rules, and they still shape the town today.
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Duluth’s ‘demographic destiny train’
Every year, the U.S. becomes more diverse in race and ethnicity—and so do its suburbs.
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The homeownership obsession
How buying homes became a part of the American dream—and also a nightmare.
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Preparing for the thousand-year storm
Sprawl has made Baltimore suburb Ellicott City more vulnerable to climate change.
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Frisco, Texas, has a plan
After engineering its own growth, can the Dallas suburb stay on top?