Architecture & Planning

Adrienne Arsht Resilience, Strong Towns and Disasters

WASHINGTON, D.C. - We all like to be prepared. It's the Boy Scout motto, Be Prepared. And what does that mean? The story with …

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY - Mattaponi Church hardly looks like the typical rural historic Southern Baptist church. The …

One of my favorite architectural books is Old American Houses, 1700-1850 by Henry Lionel and Ottalie K. Williams. Henry and …

SINGAPORE - If a body politic is looking at how to move a struggling city from poverty to riches in a short time, Singapore is the …

WILLIAMSBURG - Colonial Williamsburg is at it again with the notion that somehow it can cordon off a public street, charge …

When locals are negative about the economic future of their own towns, watch out. The negative stories and "memes" that are told …

Every few years, federal, state and local planners lay out outlandish plans for high speed rail networks that never seem to go …

Between Norfolk and Virginia Beach, my late grandmother remembers taking a railbus shuttle that ran on the now abandoned tracks …

The depopulating of America's countryside is an odd trend in an era of locavore foodies, environmental consciousness and a …

TANGIER, VA - If ever there were an issue that would let us see where the United States is compared to China, let us compare the …

Why is it that you go to some places, and things seem right, and others seem wrong. You go into a restaurant, and look around, and …

Most mornings, as I pull into an on-street parking space on 19th Street in Shockoe Bottom, I think about diagonal parking. Why, …

Behind the secretive plans to turn Richmond's old dock into a gold mine. Inside Business, Monday January 22, 2001 Mention …

From the Corridor Real Estate Journal, Washington, D.C. RICHMOND - Richmond's City Council took the first official step to …