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'Sentient cities' shape future of urban development, place people at centre of planning

1m/s: Walkability and Public Space in Montevideo

The mobility paradigm focuses on the study, design, and planning of human movement rather than on vehicles. This shift from the object—the car—to the subject—the person—requires a...

Caribbean Urbanism: From Garífuna Roots to the Layered City of La Ceiba, Honduras

On the Caribbean coast of Honduras, lies the Leán valley, a narrow coastal strip lined by the Nombre de Dios Mountain Range to the South and the Caribbean Sea to the North. For a l...

Urban living: 'Messy city' can be in the eye of the beholder

Civic improvements often emerge from unplanned urban activity

Seabrook’s Study in New Urbanism

A fantasy, or the future?

Urby Is Rethinking Apartment Living Through Design and Community

As its latest residential model opens in Philly, Urby continues to prioritize thoughtful design, shared spaces, and stronger neighborhood connections

clarence perry’s ‘neighborhood unit’: the century-old idea behind today’s 15-minute city

the history of proximity planning reveals how ideas about walkability, community, and accessibility have changed over the past century. The post clarence perry’s ‘neighborhood unit...

The City as a System of Health: Breaking Feedback Loops in Planning

The spatial consequences of urban form are revealed when health outcomes are mapped over neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that support walking, daily errands, social interaction, and a...

The people who live in cities must have a say in how they are shaped: Notes from the Common City Conference

Urban growth in Africa comes with falls on the poorest residents: forced evictions, informal settlements razed for redevelopment projects, with no consultation of the people who li...

Letter From Bogotá: How A Great World Capital Puts Housing, Transit and Public Space First

The city's Secretary of Habitat Vanessa Velasco oversees the whole habitat and urban development ecosystem.

The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin

The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin Christine McLaren Tue, 09/08/2026 - 05:00 8 minutes

Utopian Hours Ten Years Edition Part 2

The international festival of city making returns for Part 2 of its Ten Years Edition after a successful event in Rotterdam last May.Over two days, the festival will bring together...

Why mixed-use destinations are becoming the next growth engine for cities

From London and Paris to Dubai and Delhi, urban destinations are moving beyond single-purpose venues. The focus is shifting towards integrated ecosystems that combine sports, retai...

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...

Holding space: Resisting the violence of urban renewal

Urban development can improve housing, streets and public spaces, but only if it doesn't displace communities. As designers, we can choose to shape our environments in a way that i...

Local content for sustainable urban development in Muscat

Cities become more integrated to functions that drive economic development. As that happens, there’s an expectation on local authorities to deliver quality public services that als...

Glideology Deliberations on Traffic and Reimagining Urban Space

This is a book about the amenity that we call streets and how we choose to use them to move about. What makes the street so vitally important today is that it has the capacity to a...

Alexandre Chemetoff, Landscapes, Urbanism

Alexandre Chemetoff’s urban design draws on decades of designing landscapes, using new methods to reinvigorate older areas of the city and their architecture, while simultaneously...

Saint Etienne, Montreynaud District by In Situ

Urban renewal: creating new foundations for a district sitting on concrete, or how to return to the fertile ground. In the city of Saint Etienne, a social housing district named th...

How to reverse rising inequality in Asia’s cities

Asia and the Pacific is urbanizing faster than any other region. By 2050, its cities will be home to 3.4 billion people, up from 2.2 billion today – the equivalent of adding around...

david gianotten of OMA on why local context matters in shaping future cities

the OMA managing partner discusses why the future of urban life depends less on universal planning models than on local context, public infrastructure, and community agency. The po...

Planning for Love, Part 3: Enhancing human connection through walkability

Planning for Love, Part 3: Enhancing human connection through walkability Diana Ionescu Fri, 07/24/2026 - 05:00 7 minutes

The Future Suburb Symposium

The life of today's suburbs is interesting, complex, and diverse, but the suburban environments we are building are not. This is the central paradox of the contemporary Australian...

Charted: The World’s Shift to Cities (1950–2050)

See how the world's population shifted from living mostly rurally in the 1950s to mostly in cities since the 1990s.