Records of the public library in Southfield, Mich., go back 160 years, and they tell an interesting tale. In 1845, the term "public" applied to a select few patrons, namely 10 directors, each representing a local...
Chicago has about 1,900 miles of public alleys—more than any other city in the world. The Chicago Department of Transportation's Green Alley Program is an environmentally minded approach to upgrading alleys that...
When it comes to employee training and development, few AEC firms can say they rank with the likes of Microsoft, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and other Fortune 500 giants. Boston-based contractor Suffolk...
Remember the early days of the Clinton administration, when 'ol Bill anointed his wife Healthcare Czarina and threw her to the lions, with orders to come back with medical insurance for all Americans...
Everyone in the room must have had a hearty chuckle when Erik Kocher first presented his idea for adapting the old swimming and diving venue of 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
...Two-thousand five will go down in the record books as one of the costliest hurricane seasons in modern U.S. history.
Twenty-seven named storms and 15 hurricanes were...
In 1997, as the dot-com boom continued its madcap ride toward the heavens, computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. anticipated doubling its work force from 30,000 to 60,000 employees to meet market need...
Concrete always draws to the mind block upon block of boring, drab, grey conformity. Massive, squarish, sturdy grey walls of typical concrete are great at holding up buildings, but they don't inspire the awe of...
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