Humans have always been a part of the natural world, but as our technology and knowledge progressed, we distanced ourselves from nature. We have created a human ecosystem that functions in its own way and rarely works in ...

Both as a poet and a critic, Thomas Stearns Eliot has profoundly influenced post-world War I literature. Not only has he conveyed his view of the human condition poetically, but he has articulated the philosophy which ...

Shifting urban planning methodologies to reintroduce equity, support the foundation of a city and emphasize the strength of community engagement through networking. Urban contexts are compositions of interwoven systems of ...

The environment is adapting to its continually changing landscapes, modified by man to make way for cities and architecture that dominates over the surrounding green spaces that still exist. But over time, the once dominating ...

Through the process of urban decentralization, the way in which people live and establish community has changed drastically. Traditional urban relationships founded upon physical proximity to large centralized institutions ...

What is place? Place is how one comes to experience or inhabit a particular location or even how a culture begins to associate a place with a particular concept or idea. It can be something as simple as a sandbox that a ...

Operating at a scale in which levels of variability may be considered negligible, residential architecture remains bound and tethered to a set of hardened principles, as practice becomes increasingly homogenized, and ...

The western culture strives for advancement in every aspect of life. Medical technology advances exponentially from year to year. Once a milestone has been reached, a new discovery renders it obsolete. Treatments become ...

All over America, cities are experiencing a shift in population, from the center to the outside peripheries. Known as decentralization, this phenomenon is most common in modern, post-industrial cities. Depopulation of the ...

Is looking at nature directly a major factor in determining a sustainable building? Some architects are concerned with how humankind can integrate itself with nature in a sustainable way, reducing energy, materials, and ...