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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...

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

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...

Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

An expert in behavioral science and transportation, Zhao combines these studies with AI and public policy to address some of the most urgent challenges facing cities.

Academics seek to rescue urban planning

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

10 great urban planning summer reads

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

How cities can fight high housing costs

An expert explains how cities can fix their planning systems to address housing crises.

Study highlights links between land use and road safety

Study highlights links between land use and road safety Diana Ionescu Fri, 05/29/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption...

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...

The Twin Cities sprawls more than many U.S. metros

A new study ranks more than 200 U.S. metropolitan areas on density, land use, street connectivity and more. See how the Twin Cities compares.

Informing Housing Policy Debates With The Latest Research

Housing is in short supply in states like California, leading to massive inequality, economic hardship, population loss, and climate impacts, as more residents live farther from jo...

RAND reviews ULA impacts, Mayor's race focuses on housing, and more

RAND reviews ULA impacts, Mayor's race focuses on housing, and more Steven Sharp Sat, 05/30/2026 - 06:15 The City of Santa Monica is launching a $6-million renter a...

Revealing Hidden Urban Mobility Through Data Fusion

In an era where urban environments are growing exponentially complex, comprehending the underlying patterns that govern human mobility within cities has become a pivotal challenge...

Urban Planning Gone Wrong…

University of Hawaiʻi Pacific Summer Transportation Education Program accepting students for 2026

Participating high school students will be introduced to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, skills through the lens of urban and regional planning with a go...

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...

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...

Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.

More People Live, Work and Play All in the Same Building

A study tracked 10 years of new development combining retail, office space and residences.

The categorization conundrum of the American exurbs

The categorization conundrum of the American exurbs Diana Ionescu Thu, 05/21/2026 - 05:00 5 minutes

Abstract: Immigration and Rent: A PUMA-Based Spatial Analysis

Immigration over the period 2014-2023 may have accounted for a large proportion of the average real rent increase.

See and Foresee: Architectural Research Across Four Southeastern European Cities

Cities in Southeastern Europe do not wait to be read. They accumulate, layer upon layer of socialist planning, post-socialist disruption, and the quieter, less legible work of citi...

Which US cities have the most housing near transit?

Which US cities have the most housing near transit? Diana Ionescu Wed, 06/10/2026 - 07:00 Primary Image Primary Image Caption...