about her experience working in office cubicles. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I was raised by a single mother who worked long hours. Sometimes, she'd take me to work with her.

Kelley opened his business in the banking hub of Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1992, when cubicles were king and male office workers seldom deviated from the uniform of a long-sleeved, white ...

Converting existing office buildings to residences won’t be enough to stop the “urban doom loop,” because apartment buildings contain many fewer people than similarly sized office buildings do.