When the Chicago Board of Ed closed 50 schools in 2013, it planned to sell or tear down the buildings by 2017. Now, 21 of the ...

But who will care about the abandoned transit lines ... of his essential new book about overlooked urban spaces, “A Natural History of Empty Lots.” Brown is a lawyer and science fiction ...

leaving city planners and officials scrambling to figure out what to do about the empty spaces. According to the real estate company JLL, U.S. office vacancy went over 20% in the first three ...