May 5, 2025
NEW YORK (May 5, 2025) – Bloomberg News’s CityLab has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for a collection of essays by contributing writer Alexandra Lange.
“We are extremely proud to have published Alexandra Lange’s extraordinary work for Bloomberg CityLab, which showcases our journalism on cities and innovation. Alexandra’s essays, focused on how design affects children and families, offer a perspective that is rarely at the center of architectural criticism,” said Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait. “These essays exemplify our commitment to publishing in-depth analysis on topics of great interest to the public.”
The Pulitzer Prize committee recognized the series “For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.”
Read Lange’s Pulitzer-winning work for Bloomberg CityLab here.
The series explores how decisions about architecture and urban design shape the physical development, mental health and personal freedoms of children. Lange highlights efforts to make housing, parks, schools, and cultural institutions more welcoming to children, framing insights with historical context and theory. In her criticism, Lange advocates for more inclusive approaches to design that prioritize the needs of families.
The Pulitzer Prizes, regarded as the highest honor in American journalism and the arts, were announced today. See the full list of 2025 winners here.
Lange is a leading design critic and author. She began contributing regularly to CityLab in 2020.
Bloomberg CityLab covers stories, ideas and solutions from cities around the world. Lange worked closely with CityLab editor Kriston Capps on this series.
Bloomberg News won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2015 for Zachary R. Mider’s reporting on corporate tax avoidance.