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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...

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...

Urbis

The post Urbis appeared first on World Landscape Architecture. Damian Holmes

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...

Urban Planning Gone Wrong…

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.

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...

When Modernism Meets Local Resistance: Housing and Urban Friction in Latin America

Modern housing was one of the places where modernism made its boldest promise: that architecture could reshape not only the city, but the way people lived within it. As Argentine a...

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...

Dreaming in the Ruins: How a Sleeping Ritual in Logroño Proposes a New Civic Architecture

Cities are increasingly designed to mitigate risk, and by doing so, need to collect data on climate, infrastructure, biodiversity, and social fragmentation so that the language of...

The City as Monastery: Cardinal Schuster and the Spiritual Order of Urban Life

Modern Christians often feel that the city is almost impossible to evangelize. The city is fast, distracted, anonymous, commercial, restless, and increasingly secular. It does not...

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...

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

CM Maryam calls for people-centric, sustainable urban development

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...

urban soul project hospitality design translates local narratives into spatial experiences

urban soul project answers a fundamental question of how an environment can be designed to make the guest feel, understand, and remember. The post urban soul project hospitality d...

Urbanisation, megaprojects and dispossession in Asia

The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia edited by Hyun Bang Shin and Dong-Wan Gimm critiques the megaproject as the dominant model of urban development across Asia. Through i...

People Want Urban Playgrounds, Not Cities

Why we need to stop letting people outside the city make decisions about the city. The post People Want Urban Playgrounds, Not Cities appeared first on The Good Men Project.

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

The post Marvila Masterplan regenerates a fragmented and vacant piece of Lisbon into a landscape-led urban centre appeared first on World Landscape Architecture. Damian Holmes

Designing for Stray Cities: Architecture Beyond the Human

Architecture continues to draw cities as though humans occupy them alone. Plans trace circulation routes, zoning maps assign functions, and buildings are evaluated according to hum...

Brasília and Chandigarh: Two Modernist Utopias an Ocean Apart

Between the 1950s and 1960s, two cities were built that would leave a lasting mark on the history of architecture and urbanism. Born from a shared vision yet separated by more than...

1 August / International Urban Project Award 2026

The International Urban Project Award (IUPA), presented by Bauwelt and World Architecture Magazine, is open to submissions. The 2026 edition explores ARCHITECTURE THAT SPEAKS: proj...

Life of Syn The Art of Urban Living

Urban living is a dance of contrasts—vibrant and chaotic, isolating yet communal, frenetic but full of possibility. In the heart of this urban tapestry is Syna, a young professiona...

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...