For the building profession, collaboration is the key to innovation.
Slums and squatter villages show many of the earmarks associated with sustainable development and could point the way to create the cities of tomorrow.
Hollywood sells tickets by showing cities as a source of environmental shame, but designers can envision a brighter dream in which cities are an integral part of nature.
Sustainability in architecture isn't just about new construction. The preservation and reuse of existing buildings will play an increasingly imortant role, too.
As freeways become wider and wider, Americans are becoming more unhealthy.
The billions in the stimulus package earmarked for roads is the largest investment in the federal highway system since its creation. But it merely paves over a problem instead of solving it.
The NAHB says the best way to kick-start the economy is to build more housing. But we've already got enough right now. Instead, let's make development a smarter, more-sustainable business.
A new generation of eco-friendly paints can absorb pollution, offer insulation, and even collect solar energy.
To understand sustainability, designers need to explore the outdoors.
There are many reasons why building a wall to separate the U.S. and Mexico won't work.