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  • Good planning begins with better listening
  • The City as a System of Health: Breaking Feedback Loops in Planning
  • Move over, zoning. Housing’s unsung hero is better street design.

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

Good planning begins with better listening

Good planning begins with better listening Joshua Woods Tue, 07/28/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Caption A public meeting in Austin, T...

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archdaily.com /1 week ago

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...

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

Move over, zoning. Housing’s unsung hero is better street design.

Move over, zoning. Housing’s unsung hero is better street design. Diana Ionescu Tue, 08/04/2026 - 05:00 6 minutes

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designboom.com /1 week ago

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...

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usa.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

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.

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paultan.org /1 week ago

Bus operators need to be included in discussions when planning for new housing projects, says 4PAM

Planning for new housing projects should include public transport as a basic utility alongside electricity, water and sewerage, or else residents could remain locked into car depen...

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archdaily.com /4 weeks ago

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...

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urdupoint.com /1 month ago

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

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kxan.com /1 week ago

East Riverside: How mobility, housing changes can impact public safety

The planning department held an open house over the weekend to address new initiatives about housing, mobility and public spaces.

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

The unsung bureaucrat: Planners in film and TV

The unsung bureaucrat: Planners in film and TV Diana Ionescu Fri, 07/17/2026 - 05:00 8 minutes

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thejournal.ie /1 month ago

The Housing Essay: What if our cities were designed for living, and not for private wealth?

Our cities are filling with apartments, but where are the parks, playgrounds, benches and green spaces that make urban living work?

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labourlist.org /3 weeks ago

Planning ahead

Britain desperately needs more housing. It also desperately needs the infrastructure that will support that housing. It needs… The post Planning ahead appeared first on LabourList.

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landscapeaustralia.com /4 weeks ago

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...

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planetizen.com /1 day ago

The state-sanctioned urbicide of Austin

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

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

How urban design makes the world unsafe for women — and how we can change that

How urban design makes the world unsafe for women — and how we can change that Diana Ionescu Mon, 07/13/2026 - 08:00 Primary Image...

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legal-planet.org /1 month ago

BACA and planning

A key question under the CEQA initiative on the ballot this fall, should it be enacted, is how it will relate to planning in California law.  The question is an important one becau...

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designboom.com /2 weeks ago

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...

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marginalrevolution.com /1 month ago

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

We estimate the economic value of zoning reform in São Paulo, which altered maximum permitted construction along transportation corridors. Developers increased filings for multifam...

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conservativehome.com /1 month ago

David Barton: Using the Local Plan to enhance your community

Be it proposing authentic traditional architecture Design Codes or targeted greenery planting of trees and hedgerows, if done en masse this will ellicit the right outcomes and prov...

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dailypost.ng /1 month ago

Kano Assembly approves new urban planning law

The Kano State House of Assembly has passed the Kano State Physical Planning and Development Control Bill, 2026, paving the way for the dissolution of the Kano State Urban Planning...

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pdxmonthly.com /4 weeks ago

Seabrook’s Study in New Urbanism

A fantasy, or the future?

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planetizen.com /1 week ago

A book summit just for planners

A book summit just for planners Christine McLaren Tue, 09/01/2026 - 05:00 9 minutes

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globalvoices.org /3 days ago

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...

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brisbanetimes.com.au /3 weeks ago

As Melbourne’s population races to 9 million, these young architects have a plan

Population growth is fastest on the urban fringes, despite years of policy attempts to densify the inner suburbs.

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