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Imagine yourself in the middle of a large city, say Birmingham in the UK or San Diego in California, and you want to catch a bus across town to an area you’re not familiar with. No doubt you’d whip out your smartphone, punch in the address on Google...

Boston-based architect Michael Murphy is lighting up the internet with a TED Talk that went live September 15. His presentation on “Design That’s Built To Heal” is striking a chord around the world, with more than 400,000 views in the first few days...

Can architecture actually make a difference in the lives of the people who use it? Michael Murphy and his team at MASS Design Group believe so. Take a look at their designs. Michael Murphy (TED Talk: Architecture that’s built to heal) was an architecture...

Included in this week’s TED conference in Vancouver was a preview of a proposed national memorial in honor of the more than 4,000 African Americans who were lynched between 1877 and 1950. The proposed Memorial to Peace and Justice would sit on a hill...

Early last week, I was sitting in an arena listening to a highly influential person discuss ideas that would, if enacted, change the world. They ranged from a plan to build a gigantic wall between the United States and Mexico and convince Mexico to...