Placemaking

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]

Public Transit in Lagos

Bus Rapid Transit systems is a ‘transport system’ that is rapidly being adopted by many governments and cities around to world to solve commuting and human movement problems within their cities.[read more]

City Architecture and Humanity

A documentary has been making the rounds recently in urban circles featuring perhaps the most influential architect you’ve (probably) never heard of, Jan Gehl, aptly called The Human Scale.[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]

Urbanism in Turkey

As events unfold in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, there is a tendency for the urban issues that sparked the uprising to fade into the background.[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]

Urban Design Walkability

 

Walkers are practitioners of the city, for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities.[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]

Improving Public Spaces

Food trucks are all the rage these days. Go-To tools for urban designers, aspiring restaurateurs and festival planners, they are seen as a relatively quick and easy way to activate spaces.[read more]

ideas for sustainable cities

A new ‘toolbox’ is put together annually by the Danish organisation Sustainia, aiming to differentiate itself from other sustainability awards by focusing exclusively on solutions that are available today.[read more]

terrorism and art

Depending on subject matter, some of Reid's work seeks to please, some to reflect, some to challenge or defuse. "IT'S THE BOMB!" addresses what he sees as the current state of terrorism hysteria.[read more]