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The Inheritance Problem: Urban Planning and Community Engagement in U.S. Cities

Urban planning is often confused with adjacent disciplines: urban design, environmental policy, civic strategy, local politics, and data analytics. Truthfully, the overlap makes th...

Urban Planning Gone Wrong…

10 great urban planning summer reads

10 great urban planning summer reads Diana Ionescu Fri, 06/12/2026 - 05:00 7 minutes

Planning for love, part 1: The link between urban form and dating

Planning for love, part 1: The link between urban form and dating Diana Ionescu Fri, 06/26/2026 - 05:00 7 minutes

The Metrics We Use Decide the Cities We Build: Urban Indicators and Lived Experience

Modern cities are running on performance indicators. They move millions of people each day, concentrate capital, separate land uses, and sustain complex systems of logistics and co...

A New Urbanist thought experiment

A New Urbanist thought experiment Michael Lewyn Tue, 06/09/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Caption Bentonville, Arkansas was one of two...

City-Making Through Participation: Lessons from Utopian Hours 2026

Who has the right to the city? Henri Lefebvre's writings question the structures that control urban space and, instead, put the citizens at the center of decision-making. His ideas...

Urbis

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New study visualizes how city shapes impact mobility

New study visualizes how city shapes impact mobility Diana Ionescu Wed, 07/08/2026 - 07:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption...

Infrastructure As Ecosystem: Reclaiming Ingersoll Avenue As A Multi-Modal Social Hub

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Planning of cities must be people-centric, says Khattar as Brics forum adopts urban pact

Cities must prioritize people and their needs, according to Housing Minister Manohar Lal, as BRICS nations adopted a declaration for inclusive urban development. The 'Cities for Pe...

How Kingsley And Company Approaches Urban Redevelopment Through Community-Focused Planning

Urban redevelopment projects can shape housing accessibility, commercial investment patterns, infrastructure use, and long-term neighborhood... The post How Kingsley And Company Ap...

I Hope This Helps рџ‘ЌрџЏЅ: Zoning Edition

I Hope This Helps 👍🏽: Zoning Edition Joshua Woods Tue, 06/02/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Caption 1922 zoning map of Chicago....

Academics seek to rescue urban planning

Eighteen Greek academics have unveiled what they hope will be a landmark document for spatial planning in Greece.

Growing Streets vision for Ookwemin Minising revealed

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Marvila Masterplan regenerates a fragmented and vacant piece of Lisbon into a landscape-led urban centre

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Building, Taxing, and Financing: New York City's Recent Measures to Tackle the Housing Crisis

The New York City local government is one of the largest of its kind, with hundreds of city agencies and elected offices. The Mayor, city agencies, the city council, the comptrolle...

Safer Cities by Design

As concerns around security continue to shape cities, landscape architects face a familiar challenge: how to create public spaces that feel both safe and welcoming. Too often, secu...

Roma Continua | Metropolitan vision for Rome

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Building Public Life: How Bogotá and Mexico City Addressed Urban Inequality

In many Latin American cities, peripheral neighborhoods have historically had less access to the resources that make urban life more than just livable. Housing, transportation, and...

Building the smart city: Promise, pitfalls and the people at its heart

From AI-powered transit systems to digital twins and flood-proof parks, cities are embracing technology at an unprecedented scale. But as innovation accelerates, experts warn that...

Innovative Revitalization: The East Kinston Neighborhood Hub Framework

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Rewilding the City: 6 Unbuilt Projects from the ArchDaily Community

In the current context of rapid urban environmental changes, such as heatwaves and droughts, new priorities are emerging in the design of public spaces. "Rewilding" refers to the p...

Routing-App Interventions Easing Urban Traffic Congestion

Urban Congestion Relief Through Intelligent Routing-App Interventions: A Paradigm Shift in City Traffic Management The relentless growth of urban environments across the globe has...