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Common Edge is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting architecture and design with the public that it's meant to serve. To get there we will need more authentic public engagement and the rediscovery of some timeless design resources.

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Blog 13 days ago
Latino Urbanism Is Better Appreciated by Landscape Architects Than by Planners
For the past 30 years, I have been educating urban planners on the way Latinos are transforming the U.S. urban landscape-or, as I call it, Latino Urbanism. I have had some success. But I'm beginning to realize that I may have been targeting the wrong prof
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Blog 14 days ago
NYC's Antiquated Fire Regulations Impede the Push to Build New Housing
Just as the human body needs an immune system to fight diseases, a city needs a fire department to fight fires. Sometimes, however, the immune system goes too far, and its actions actually harm the body. Rheumatoid arthritis, for example, is the result of
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Blog 20 days ago
The Fractured State of Architecture Journalism and Criticism
We've just spent a good part of the summer listening to play-by-play announcers and color commentators covering the FIFA World Cup. Because Americans know so little about that kind of football, we raptly listened to every word, trusting that the announcer
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Blog 21 day ago
When Authentic Public Engagement, Political Will, and Good Design Come Together
One of the more promising shifts in the discourse in recent years is a larger critique of the economic systems that architecture and design operate under. In other words: Who sets the agenda? Who defines the perimeters? Who makes the early decisions-the o
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Blog 27 days ago
Rome vs. Japan: Two Civilizations, Two Philosophies of Architectural Permanence
At Ise Jingū, Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine, the main buildings are torn down and rebuilt from scratch every 20 years. And they have been for more than 1,300 years. The old timber is felled, the joinery cut by hand, the thatch laid fresh, and the prev
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