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Urban Planning
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The Evolution Of Urban Planning In 10 Diagrams
Le Corbusier’s plan may not have had such power if he hadn’t put it on paper. The French…
2015-03-25
The Insanity Of City Street Grids
A new data visualisation reveals exactly how serpentine some cities’ road patterns can be. Stephen Von Worley—whose previous…
2015-03-19
Water Must Drive City Planning
Six of the ten largest US cities are located in the arid southwest region. Would that be the…
2015-03-13
What Makes A City Beautiful?
A provocative new video featuring Alain de Botton says beauty in urban settings must be objective—and to argue…
2015-03-11
Downtown Is For People
This is a classic article by Jane Jacobs originally published in Fortune Magazine in 1958. If the downtown…
2015-03-07
If Women Built Cities, What Would Our Urban Landscape Look Like?
The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very,…
2015-03-05
Should The World Plan For Fewer (Not More) People?
Current UN projections show that there will be 11 billion people living on Earth by the end of…
2015-03-04
Radical Old, Futuristic New: 9 Visions For Chicago
Chicagoisms, at the art institute, explores the city’s progressive urban design and enlists architects’ riffs on the city’s…
2015-02-27
The Unlikely Ascent Of Palestine’s Green Architects
One of the first thoughts Danna Masad had about the importance of architecture occurred to her in early…
2015-02-26
How Vancouver Became One Of North America’s Most Family-Friendly Cities
It took very concerted policy efforts going back to the early 1990s. If you’re a city resident of…
2015-02-25
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
2015-02-24
Property Developers Exploit Authorities, Ruining Our Cities
Affordable housing quotas get waived and the interests of residents trampled as toothless authorities bow to the dazzling…
2015-02-21
James Kunstler: How Bad Architecture Wrecked Cities
In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centres of civic life and the physical manifestation…
2015-02-17
“We Have Designed Cities To Make People Ill”
“We are all suffering from the bad design in the world,” Thomas Fisher, an architecture professor and dean…
2015-02-16
How Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning Will Change The Way We Design Cities
Researchers at MIT Media Lab are using crowdsourced data to create an algorithm that determines how safe a…
2015-02-16
Make Your Cities Flood-Resilient With These Ideas
A new exhibition argues that a ‘landscape first’ approach to urban development, via innovative water management, could make…
2015-02-12
How Brooklyn Is Like Buenos Aires: Toward A Science Of Cities
Marc Barthelemy and Rémi Louf, researchers at L’Institut de Physique Théorique outside of Paris, are seeking quantitative approaches to understanding cities.…
2015-02-09
Cities [In Britain] Where Planning Went Right
Britain’s planning departments have lost nearly half of their budgets over the past four years, and more spending…
2015-02-07
How Cities Can Learn From The Human Body’s Systems
Much like the human body with its skeletal, cardiovascular and nervous systems, cities have infrastructure systems, such as…
2015-02-05
How Much Public Space Does a City Need?
How much of Manhattan is dedicated to public space? For starters, there’s Central Park, but the island’s oasis…
2015-02-04
Making City Planning Cool
British cities are in crisis, but it is of an unusual and distinctly 21st-century form. Thirty years ago,…
2015-02-03
Rethinking Urban Cemeteries
City dwellers may see conventional burials become a luxury, available only to the very wealthy, as urban crowding…
2015-02-02
The Evolution Of Urban Spaces
A popular new study claims to lump cities into four types. But the real science of cities is…
2015-01-31
5 Crucial Principles For 21st Century Transportation Systems
Handling tomorrow’s mega-trends means rethinking today’s infrastructure. Over the rest of the 21st century, cities will face many…
2015-01-30
The Geometry Of Urban Life
Even a roaming cartophile, looking through an airplane window at night, would be challenged to identify a city…
2015-01-30
A Guide To Safer Streets and Simple Rules – Courtesy of New York City
In the past decade or so, New York has seen a considerable decline in traffic fatalities (30 percent…
2015-01-30