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In the rarefied, privileged enclaves of elegant urban life, downtown supermarkets like the one I remember from my hometown did not shut down but thrived and often became enduring cultural references.

Return to that precarious, aspirational year, 1997. Feel the disorientation the HBO execs must have felt watching that opening scene, which takes place in the least legible (for a mob show) of all the series’ spaces, Dr. Melfi’s office.

Insurers are retreating from risk-exposed regions, while authorities are failing to keep pace with the crises unfolding around them. Into this breach, Gotlib hopes, come citizens working in concert to navigate devastating changes.

So much of what makes an otherwise innocuous home scary is dependent on where we look, how we move, and how long we linger—work the movie camera performs.

Too often in Antifascist Architecture, the architecture isn’t antifascist and the antifascism isn’t architecture.

Socialism in one building?

Not content with the damage they’ve wrought, the people who destroyed Gaza are already considering what to erect in its place.

Some saw the wage as the goal. Others saw it as a tool—sometimes even a bludgeon—to break down received ideas about work and love.

An improbable marriage of fine art and international investigative journalism

Advocates of adaptive reuse still face a kind of ew-my-peas-are-touching-my-mashed-potatoes aversion to the idea of integrating new and old construction.

On offer is a labyrinth of amenities for the introverted minotaur.

The Victorian-era eggheads to whom the book introduces us readily equate walls with porous skin and rooms with mechanical lungs.