By the time Dr. Richard Bates swept his radar device over the sandstone of Petra’s ancient Treasury building, it had been more than two decades since anyone had so deeply probed the stone city’s grounds. For nearly as long, archaeologists had been stymied by a maddeningly stubborn mystery. In 2003, …
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David Garrard Lowe, a writer and architectural historian whose passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War …
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Maurice Cox, the former planning director of the city of Detroit, remembers the first time Matthew Naimi wandered into his office in paint-splattered overalls in 2018, with fingernail polish, a kaffiyeh on his head, and his bare arms a constellation of tattoos. When Naimi told him that he wanted to …
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