How To Revitalize Communities Without Gentrification
Cities are always looking to improve their neighborhoods for the better. But what is better for developers and the upper middle class isn’t always what’s best for the community as a whole. With so much controversy surrounding these changes, the question arises: is...
Green Buildings: Creating Jobs and Boosting the Construction Industry
It is undeniable that we are living a revolution in our consumption habits. Not so long ago, virtually nobody would pay attention to what happens during the production cycle of a product, and its consequences. Let’s take a chair as an example. Consumers used to...
An Oasis of Green
Architects and urban planners are coming up with creative ways to preserve green spaces in the world’s cities. Approximately half of the world’s population of 7.6 billion people lives in cities, a staggering sum indeed! Given the many benefits green spaces provide...
Steel is Steel, Right?
There are many differences between American-made steel and imported steel. As with many things we tend to generalize, the answer is a resounding “no!” Steel, arguably the most important building material of the modern era, has been the subject of a dispute between...
Just What Does Our Nation Infrastructure Refer to Anyway?
Infrastructure It’s a word plastered all over the news lately. From dilapidated roads to crumbling bridges, infrastructure - or the fundamental, underlying facilities our cities and towns rely on to help them function - are in desperate need of repair, upgrade, or...