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2025

Security Square: even after Macy’s leaves, it’s a mall that refuses to die.original ↗

28 Jan 2025

Quiznos labelscar: a suburban relic, or an omen of a global future?original ↗

21 Jan 2025

Confusing public infrastructure: is it really safer if it alienates visitors?original ↗

17 Jan 2025

The Block in Annandale: fastidiously fighting food hall fatigue.original ↗

10 Jan 2025

2024

Mid-century modern façade in Wheeling WV: proving the beat generation’s still got rhythm.original ↗

31 Dec 2024

Tribute to First Lutheran: reflecting on an oft-featured, destroyed urban church.original ↗

29 Dec 2024

Christmas icon gives Santa real competition, at least on retail shelves.original ↗

27 Dec 2024

Paper or plastic? As restaurants roll out ecological alternatives, are they building a straw man?original ↗

16 Dec 2024

Bike boulevards in the Capital Region: do they work? Do people know they exist?original ↗

9 Dec 2024

Gym sublease: when one activity goes out of fashion, ink the page for another. original ↗

30 Nov 2024

Auto-oriented use in a company town founded before the Model T. original ↗

29 Nov 2024

Squat building squeeze: in megacities with huge land costs, how do tiny buildings survive?original ↗

23 Nov 2024

Rehoboth Mall: the dead mall deconstructed (architecturally and rhetorically).original ↗

18 Nov 2024

Washington’s Lafayette Square on Election Day: do sunny skies portend the calm before the storm? (MONTAGE)original ↗

8 Nov 2024

Checkpoint: not exactly Charlie, but Bravo to those who must protect this Alfa! (MONTAGE)original ↗

31 Oct 2024

Save a strip mall? Why does everyone care so much about Rose Hill Plaza?original ↗

29 Oct 2024

Baltimore Avenue in College Park, MD: from strip malls to super-talls.original ↗

22 Oct 2024

GoatScape: no need for pruning shears. Incisors will do just fine!original ↗

13 Oct 2024

“Cute little dog” effect: how customers abuse business owners’ rights to exclude pets.original ↗

6 Oct 2024

Seasonal meters: why some towns turn the little machines off half the year.original ↗

30 Sept 2024

Single-screen theater is a tough business. Even posh neighborhoods would agree!original ↗

27 Sept 2024

Multi-user path in suburbia: are they biking too close to the sun?original ↗

19 Sept 2024

Dessert distinction: a bakery cues French confections and civics…all in a tiny sign.original ↗

16 Sept 2024

Can opener of Durham: this one is just a bridge too far (for moving trucks at least).original ↗

13 Sept 2024

A mountain town’s trash can might be tall enough. But is it bear-proof?original ↗

1 Sept 2024

Indoor dogs at private businesses: have the laws changed in recent years?original ↗

29 Aug 2024

Excess signage: how the towering town of Telluride gets it right. original ↗

25 Aug 2024

Starbucks proximity—think they’re too close in your downtown? Try flying the friendly skies.original ↗

19 Aug 2024

Illuminated crosswalks embedded in the pavement. Since looking up is too much to ask.original ↗

6 Aug 2024

Blue-collar prosperity: a quick survey of Perth Amboy’s thriving downtown.original ↗

31 Jul 2024

Separate entrances: will cats and dogs make peace before humans ever find a cure-all?original ↗

27 Jul 2024

Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh: proof that the dead mall is NOT an American phenomenon?original ↗

23 Jul 2024

Tavistock, New Jersey’s smallest borough, is 95% greens space. (Greens, not green.)original ↗

14 Jul 2024

Cart theft revisited: a problem with increasingly visible (and expensive) prevention tactics.original ↗

10 Jul 2024

Linguistic strategy at Trader Joe’s: the recipe to a beloved chain’s success.original ↗

1 Jul 2024

Where have all the lightning bugs gone?original ↗

28 Jun 2024

Defensive urbanism: homeless face hard, heavy new hurdles. Jersey style.original ↗

23 Jun 2024

Flag Day celebration (and quiz)! How one PA steel town bravely recognizes its past.original ↗

14 Jun 2024

Blank wall bravado: a trendy neighborhood’s supermarket is more and less than meets the eye.original ↗

9 Jun 2024

Shopping cart strategies: genuine asset protection, or are they just spinning their wheels?original ↗

1 Jun 2024

Sign regulations: what it looks like if your town generally lacks good ones.original ↗

29 May 2024

Transmission towers need booster seats too. Allegedly.original ↗

26 May 2024

A downtown without clear pedestrian advocacy: the Fort Worth example.original ↗

14 May 2024

Accessible ramp at Lincoln Memorial: an elaborate accommodation becomes a visual blight. Or is it?original ↗

7 May 2024

Opossums over o’politics: replacing typical bumper stickers with marsupial matters.original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Nickel Plate Trail gives Fishers a bike/ped path on the old rail line. Where’s the controversy?original ↗

29 Apr 2024

Folk pop: the classic Mail Pouch Tobacco ad gets the meme treatment. For better health.original ↗

22 Apr 2024

Rax Roast Beef: a peek inside one of the last locations of a once-mighty 80s chain.original ↗

17 Apr 2024

Lebanon Union: a 200-year-old cemetery in a colonial city…barely a dot on the map.original ↗

7 Apr 2024

Flood-prone Tidal Basin: DC’s most beloved and threatened pink park needs the TLC.original ↗

31 Mar 2024

Resistance to Russia reaps rhetorical rewards in Riga.original ↗

28 Mar 2024

Stumpy: DC’s most middling cherry tree gets center stage as zero hour approaches. (MONTAGE)original ↗

22 Mar 2024