S1: This is KPBS Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bracken in for Jade Hindman. Ahead , we hear a conversation about the power of design to shape our lives and communities , from housing to transportation , ...

Generative urban AI platforms can move from vision into reality in seconds with dozens, if not hundreds, of iterations and scenarios to choose from. Cities, the pulsating hubs of human civilization, ...

Urban environments have become living laboratories where human design choices directly influence the climate we experience every day. With more than half the world's population now living in cities, ...

Designers: Alex San Diego, Mia Lehrer and Eden Ferry at Studio-MLA’s Boyle Heights office. (Photo by Thomas Wasper) Founded downtown in 1997, Studio-MLA temporarily resided in Koreatown before ...

At a historical moment when industrialization and urbanization are continuing at a fast and predatory pace, we need to design and produce spaces that can adapt to new realities. Based on this need, ...

This course surveys recent prominent theories of urban spatial design-ways of reading, understanding, and designing urban space-and asks: What works and what doesn't, and why? It is an introductory ...

Across America’s cities, a quiet but powerful transformation is taking place: rooftops are being turned into gardens, playgrounds, and peaceful green sanctuaries. As municipalities adapt to the ...

Cities are never truly complete and done; instead they are always changing, always evolving. One positive change is the rise of regenerative cities—urban centers designed to have a restorative ...