Land Use

Public Transit of the Future?

The promise of a fully automated highway network has captivated the imaginations of futurists and aspirational engineers for several generations. In these visions there is a wide range of so-called “intelligent vehicle systems."[read more]

Urban Parks

The Trust for Public Land Park Score index ranked the “City of Lakes” Minneapolis, Minnesota as the #1 Park System in the nation, with New York, NY coming in second.[read more]

Dutch City Biking

On the 4th March 2013, Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor of London's Cycling Commissioner, stated that "it took 40 years to turn Amsterdam in to Amsterdam". But it will take even longer to turn London in to a cycling nirvana.[read more]

Urban Wildlife

There are a lot of reasons that we should support urban biodiversity. On the utilitarian side, these organisms provide ecosystem services like photosynthesis, decomposition, control of pests, and the processing of air and water pollution.[read more]

Cities and Forestry

 

In order to keep pace with the burgeoning demand for renewable energy, forest management policy in the U.S. must change to address environmental sustainability issues.[read more]

Biking in Miami

Though ranked among the least bike-friendly cities in the country, Miami is improving. Improvements are enhancing some of the country’s most dangerous areas for riders and walkers.[read more]

Placemaking Public Spaces

Amazing and inspiring people from outside the architecture, planning, government worlds, and other traditional haunts of Placemakers, whose work exemplifies how creating great places goes far beyond the physical spaces that make up our cities.[read more]

veggie swap

Beyond the act of growing, eating and community building, the project also aims to teach people about carbon-free food storage as well as composting and food waste recycling.[read more]

Urbanism Speakeasy is a podcast with a particular focus on human-scale design. We love streets and places designed for people, regardless of how they happen to travel. No advanced technical degrees or silver spoons required on this show. Our primary goal is to share technical information and trends in ordinary language. The show is...[read more]

urbanization

How do we deal with the neighborhoods and suburbs that have become notorious for being environmentally unfriendly?[read more]

Gezi Park

Two years after the Arab Spring events we are witnessing another similar uprising in a large urban plaza filled with protestors of varying backgrounds seeking potentially disparate outcomes but gathering in the same place nonetheless.[read more]

biking in Rio

Rio de Janeiro, has taken a dynamic approach by using the infrastructure investments made for the World Cup and Olympic to also address some of its major, ongoing infrastructure, environmental, and social issues.[read more]