They’re a good idea, but they’re not going to liberate us from capitalism. Abundant light? Gotta be single-stair.(Shutterstock) If you’ve been around architecture and urbanism circles for the last few ...

co-written and researched by Smith of the Center for Building in North America, found that in New York, the rate of fire deaths in single stairway buildings was the same as in other residential ...

Santa Monica City Council approves changes to building codes, raising high-rise threshold and allowing single-stairway ...

San Diego is mulling a change to its building code that supporters say would spur more family-sized apartments with better natural lighting and ventilation. The change has to do with the longstanding ...

Facing a wall of opposition from fire officials, Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday killed a bill that would have allowed taller apartment buildings to be constructed in a single-stair style that’s ...

This article was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As lawmakers scramble to turbocharge post-fire recovery efforts in Los Angeles and to tackle a housing shortage ...