We take an exhaustive look at the forces shaping our cities today: the regenerative power of small businesses, changes brought by new development, alternative transportation options, and rich, if burdensome, cultural legacies.
The number one cable show in its timeslot among viewers ages 25 to 54, the real explanation for the show’s success is Joanna Gaines, one-half of Fixer Upper’s power couple.
Portland, Oregon is in the midst of a population boom, but the notoriously well-planned city is having trouble adjusting to the influx. Preservationists are hoping a first-of-its-kind ordinance can save some of what makes Portland so special.
The reign of the Spanish-run California missions was brief and often brutal, giving rise to a variety of supernatural legends. Join us as we take a tour of the missions and meet some of the spooky spirits that supposedly reside therein.
LA’s first cemeteries were the "eternal" resting places for everyone from Mission Indians to the governor of Mexican California to Wild West outlaws. As the young city grew, though, they were defiled, dug up, and bulldozed in the name of progress.
Hawtree Creek passes through a pocket of New York City that feels like it belongs to a different century. Now, it's on the front lines of climate change, as rising tides create new problems for longtime residents.
The Santa Ana winds and their supposedly sinister effects loom large in the Los Angeles imagination. But how much do the winds really change us? And how much are we changing them?
The obsession with midcentury modern has recently evolved to include lush, jungly greenery and sculptural gardens. These verdant spaces may help scrub the air, but they also serve as uneasy reminders of our environmental anxieties.
Decades before shows like Tiny House Hunters spawned a nationwide obsession, an earlier generation of do-it-yourself builders launched a mini-house boom of their own, converting flatbeds, bread trucks, and school buses into tiny homes on wheels.
Michael Chen didn’t set out to found an architecture firm known for redesigning tiny New York City apartments, but it’s quickly become the thing his firm, MKCA, is best known for. Learn how he approaches the challenge of redesigning small spaces.
A belief that spacious apartments translate to a better quality of life has prevailed in New York, but the city's latest population boom has turned that belief on its head. But does that mean more micro apartments are coming? Curbed investigates.
The fact that Gabler’s Creek even exists today is largely due to the work of the Udalls Cove Preservation Committee (UCPC), a small neighborhood organization founded in 1969 by the concerned residents of Douglaston and Little Neck.
The first subdivision in the now-tony town of Calabasas was Park Moderne, an avant-garde colony in a rustic setting that attracted artists from Jan de Swart to John Steinbeck to Jimmy Durante. Today, the retreat has been almost entirely wiped out.
The manmade hills of Staten Island's Freshkills Park are inarguably beautiful, but they're also indicative of the disposability of the post-war American way of life. Karrie Jacobs explains, while taking us through the new, 2,200-acre park.
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is an incredible feat of engineering that brings riders from the desert floor to a wintry mountaintop. It could only make sense in Palm Springs, where the natural and unnatural collide in unexpected ways.
Before TV, the internet, and air conditioning, the young LA park system provided crucial space for summer recreation. To celebrate the end of summer 2016, let's takes a look at what summer was like 100 years ago in three of LA’s most beloved parks.
In East Texas, Jeff Henry has created a network of infinite artificial rivers at his family’s chain of water parks, Schlitterbahn. Think of it as nature well-suited for a generation raised on electronically enabled instant gratification
In the days when their family owned all of Malibu, an heiress and a wannabe cowboy built themselves a seaside mansion covered in spectacular tilework. Malibu was eventually sold off piece by piece, but the Adamson House still stands.
The seaside neighborhood, once known for its weirdness and diversity, has gentrified into a wealthy tech enclave. As old and new residents fight for their visions of Venice, could secession from LA be next?
Simply put, the megaproject formerly known as Atlantic Yards is truly, finally, becoming a thing. Curbed checks in on the site's progress as it prepares to welcome its first residents.
The Los Angeles County coast was a treacherous place until the first lighthouses were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bringing independent women, heartbroken widowers, drunks, and more to isolated blufftop posts.
In the second installment of Engineered Nature, Karrie Jacobs explores the Buffalo Bayou in Houston and examines how a change in perspective can turn a highway’s inhospitable underside into a bucolic park.
New York City has over 520 miles of coastline, but instead of battling crowds at Fort Tilden, consider a different way of interacting with the city's changing waterfront. The 20 "beaches" here offer a quiet place for those seeking solitude.
As Los Angeles boomed in the 1910s, civic leaders longed for a public venue for concerts, events, and, if they were lucky, the Olympics. The LA Memorial Coliseum cost only $800,000, but it helped make the young city a star.
The Hills on Governors Island are a perfect example of the hallmark of 21st century design: objects that are hybrids, part manmade and part natural. Karrie Jacobs examines the engineering behind the landscape.
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