Many of us have childhood memories of abandoned buildings that stood, forgotten, on the outskirts of town. For some reason, ...

Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, one of many that Mexican American kids were forced to attend apart from their white peers, ...

Ylenia Aguilar raised her two sons in Arizona — first in Tucson and later Phoenix, so they’re no strangers to scorching heat. Just recently, Phoenix hit its 100th straight day at or above 100 degrees, ...

One of my favorite childhood memories was visiting my local neighborhood park and building a fort with the other neighborhood ...

Unused public spaces are creating new opportunities for young kids and offering stability to providers and families.

Scores of schools across the U.S. are carpeted in asphalt with no shade. The situation has become acute enough that kids are ...

But with the green light given for the building’s more ambitious proposal, additional work to the foundations and piling is “well underway,” Azizi added. The 131-story skyscraper will ...

But this great glass spike is just the latest in a long line of structures, whose nature reflected the needs of the age. Here, I’ve attempted to untangle the history, to work out which building ...

The Scripps Howard Fund, in collaboration with Scholastic Books, is transforming young lives through the simple yet profound act of giving a book. National correspondent James Packard delves into the ...

The deaths of all 72 people in the 2017 blaze in west London were avoidable and had been preceded by "decades of failure" by government, other authorities and the building industry, inquiry ...

Edmonton developer Cantiro Group will start levelling the downtown buildings, which have sat vacant and vandalized for years, according to the city. Demolition of three of the four structures ...

Carpenter, Stephen R. Brock, William A. Folke, Carl van Nes, Egbert H. and Scheffer, Marten 2015. Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ...