Land Lines Spring/Summer 2025
Storm Surge: How Can Cities and Regions Plan for Climate Relocation?
As the impacts of climate change intensify, making life inconvenient or intolerable in places more prone to drought, wildfire, or flooding, people will increasingly relocate to safer places. How can communities prepare?
Housing Design Has to Evolve
Since World War II, most housing in America has been built for the nuclear family, but today’s households are structured very differently. Lynn Richards, former president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, explains why housing design must evolve to meet the moment.
A View of the Charles
19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow helped protect dozens of acres in Cambridge, Massachusetts, creating an urban oasis that offers respite for residents and visitors today.
The composition of US households is changing, and housing design should change along with it—so argues a feature article in this issue, which also includes an exploration of how communities are preparing to handle climate migration and a look at the land conservation legacy of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.