urban planning

Cincinnati's lost history

Its subway lines were long ago removed, its storefronts boarded up, sealed or displaced. However, this Cincinnati neighborhood was, at the beginning of the 20th century, an epicenter for a radical form of Community Organizing.[read more]

urban research

Institutions are forever trying to build toolkits to bolster resilience, establish sustainability, or ensure economic development. But development interventions, such as technology and business incubators are often formulaic.[read more]

rethinking the urban grid?

We often use the utilitarian, rational deployment of street grids as a boon to our best cities. But as the way we interact with the city evolves, including the buildings within it, the grid lags behind.[read more]

All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group

The Get Britain Cycling Inquiry final report will be published on Wednesday, containing a raft of recommendations to Parliament on how to bring about more and safer cycling in the UK.[read more]

healthy cities

The rural poor streaming into our cities today have a greater risk for the so-called diseases of poverty, including infections and malnutrition directly attributable to poor urban design in the form of housing and sanitation.[read more]

Konza Technology City, Kenya

A recent lecture questions how many of the latest master-planning proposals for rapidly developing African cities are at best fictional renderings of false utopias, and at worst artifacts of a new type of exploitation.[read more]

transportation and hospitals

Easy access to a hospital is vital to a good hospital design. When we say “easy access,” we are referring to the ease with which cars and ambulances can access a hospital.[read more]

In Sweden, a commission has been appointed to suggest measures to make the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services known in Swedish society at all levels, national, regional and local.[read more]

The United States has reached an historic moment. The exurban development explosion that defined national growth during the past two decades has come to a screeching halt, according to the latest US Census figures. Only 1 of the 100 highest-growth US communities of 2006—all of them in sprawled areas—reported a significant population gain...[read more]

Source: Barcelona City Council Like most post-industrial cities around the world, Barcelona has spent well over a decade planning how to reshape its industrial heartland. In Barcelona, this is 200-hectare Poblenou, known as the Catalan Manchester at the end of the 19th century.Source: Barcelona City Council Toward this end, in 2000 the...[read more]

By Alistair Mackay at Future Cape Town When you fly into Buenos Aires, the city stretches for as far as the eye can see – it’s an unimaginably big sprawl of high-rise apartment blocks, urban squares and neat, rigid avenues that eventually deteriorate into slums and suburbia. It is completely flat, and so European in the...[read more]

   Not long ago, Newton, County, Georgia, was classic rural America:  a few small towns, some historic buildings, and a lot of farming.  But the county has had the good (or bad, depending on your point of view) fortune to be 30 miles from the center of one of the world’s most rapidly expanding cities, Atlanta....[read more]