With a settlement named ‘Pandemic,’ housing activists in Cape Town are tackling inequality
In South Africa, housing is a right — so occupiers are claiming it on golf courses and government lands.
By Ryan Lenora Brown and Vincent Lali

Q&A: Merging architecture and culture
By Schuyler Velasco

As sea levels rise, a Dutch neighborhood floats up
By Stav Dimitropoulos

Winter 2020/2021
The Experience Playlist: Winter
By Erick Trickey

These films are guided tours of lost urban landscapes
By Ezra Haber Glenn
Rooting out a little-known danger of urban gardening
By Hannah Thomasy

After COVID, will the flu make a comeback?
By Veronique Greenwood

A quantum-computing app led me on an adventure in my own town
By Glenn McDonald

We’re all moving in together
By Jenni Gritters

Getting out the vote — from out of town
By Schuyler Velasco

Harness the power of words
By Schuyler Velasco

This Instagram account is fighting to make dermatology less white
By Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

If an app can help you spy, can you resist?
By Alix Strauss

When users get mean, these chatbots sass back
By Stav Dimitropoulos

72 years before George Floyd, this police killing sparked national protests
By Schuyler Velasco

Forget the class guinea pig. Meet the class robot.
By Hannah Thomasy

Try an Interactive
Your brain vs. artificial intelligence
To understand how AI works, you have to understand human cognition, and recognize the processes we take for granted.


See how your choices add up for the climate
When planning a wedding, taking a trip, or hosting a dinner party, which trade-offs are you willing to make to reduce your carbon footprint?

What would you do? Take an immigrant’s journey.
Here are eight immigrant stories, told through composite characters but based on real laws and historically documented scenarios. Follow their paths, and see how you would respond to the choices they faced.