Before Amazon.com and Home Depot, Sears Catalogs brought goods, services, and home improvement projects to Americans who lived in far flung rural areas. Some results are in Cape Charles on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

In my latest article in The Guardian, I argue it will take both the scale of large companies and grassroots activism to transform our cities and make our living and work spaces healthier and safer.

With Whitey Bulger arrested after years on the lam, Boston is abuzz. But with all the talk, the mafia boss had a soft spot for a couple lions in New York.

My article on humanitarian design in the June 2011 issue of AIA’s Architect Magazine is now in digital format.

You would not intuitively place Starbucks and mid-century architecture in the same sentence, but occasionally the coffee giant genuinely blends in well within neighborhoods outside of its Seattle base.

Joseph Eichler and his homes still strut and thrive throughout California, and that is true in Silicon Valley. Among the 11,000 or so homes built that carry his design, Eichler homes, or “Eichlers,” are still in demand by Silicon Valley homeowners.

The June 2011 issue of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Architect magazine has printed my article on humanitarian design.

If Steve Jobs and the city of Cupertino can agree, Apple Inc. will build a new futuristic Silicon Valley campus and move into the new digs in 2015.